This is an analysis of the poem America that begins with:
NOR force nor fraud shall sunder us! O ye
Who north or south, on east or western land, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcbbbdaadee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110111 1111111101 1001011111 1011011111 1111100101 1001010101 0101010111 0101110011 01010010101 1110010111 0011011110 1011001110001 01110101001 111101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; for is repeated.
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