This is an analysis of the poem Better Times Are Coming that begins with:
There are voices of hope that are borne on the air,
And our land will be freed from its clouds of despair,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbCDCDDDXeeffXgghhXbbggXhhiiXhhbbXjjhhXeekkXkkee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111001111101 111001001001 11111101011 1010111101 010101 10100101010 010101 10100101010 10101111101110 10101111101110 1 101010101010001 11011101010101 1100011010101 0110111110101 1 101000101111101 101000101110101 1101011110001 1100101111111 1 10010110110111 1111111010101 010010011101 101010110010101 1 100101101110001 1110100110101 010101001111 11101000101001 1 10100100010101 101111101010101 010111110101 1111101110001 1 10010011010101 101001011101 0101101010101 11101001001 1 0010011111101 111101001101001 011111111101 111010001111 1 11010100010011 11010100011101 01001101110001 11000100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2267
- Average number of words per stanza: 424
- Amount of lines: 50
- 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; and, hurrah, his, makes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tell is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines coming is repeated).
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