This is an analysis of the poem Orphans Of Flanders that begins with:

Where is the land that fathered, nourished, poured
The sap of a strong race into your veins,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dbdb efef ghgh ifif
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001110101 0100110011 10110111001 01101010101 0001010101 11010100101 11110100101 1011010101 0001010101 1101010101 11111010001 0011011101 1101111011 1101000101 0101010101 00101110001 1111101101 1001110111 1101011101 1111110101 1101110111 0100110101 1111011001 1101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, your are repeated.

    The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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