This is an analysis of the poem July Fourth By The Ocean that begins with:

The continent's a tamed ox, with all its mountains,
Powerful and servile; here is for plowland, here is...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcXXXcXbXcbXXXdXdb Xd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010001101010 1001101011010 11111010 1001100101111 1100101010100 110011111 1100100101010 100 100011111110 1001010 11101011101110 0110001001110 10001010 10111001101 010 01101010100100 10100100 1010101010101 001001011101 101111 01011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 442
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for is repeated.

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