This is an analysis of the poem To The United States Of America that begins with:

Brothers in blood! They who this wrong began
To wreck our commonwealth, will rue the day ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba aXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001110101 0111010101 1111010001 10010100100 1111010101 1111011111 1001011111 0101111011 10111111110 1111110101 01110101010 10110110010 001001010101 10110111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.

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