This is an analysis of the poem Can'T I Have A Homeland To Call My Own? that begins with:
Am I so dangerous a criminal, so vicious an enemy of humanity,
Such a traitor to my country that I can't have a homeland to call my own? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdbbcdXXccbXdddbXXcbabcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111000100110110000100 1010011011110110111 11110101001011111 1000100010101 110110111101 1000100010011011 101011110111111111 101111 111010011101 01110011101 1001010010001100010101 100010111010101010011 11010111111111 111111101010 1111101101 111111 1111111100010 11111011010111 1110111110110111 1101011111 11111111101001 11001111110100111 00100111001100100100010 1110110010100100 11101111111110110111 111100111110111111 010110110011010010011010100100101010111101000001001000110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 906
- Average number of words per stanza: 170
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, so, to, and, in, of, you, have, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words blindly, you are repeated.
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