This is an analysis of the poem The Children's Song that begins with:
Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee
Our love and toil in the years to be;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff Xagb ggXX hhbb ggii XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 111100000 11111111 11110011 100101101 11110111 11110101 11000100 11010101 01101101 10111111 01010101 11010110 01110111 11110101 11110101 11010111 11111111 110111100 11110001 11011101 11110101 11011101 11010101 11010101 111111001 01010101 11011101 1001111110 1111111010 11011101 1011110001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; our, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word teach at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of The Children's Song;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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