This is an analysis of the poem What A Country! that begins with:
For more than an era,
my Country relished the pains I suffer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXaac dceXebXbb XbcbXaXXfbgfeXge eaXXd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,16,5,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 1101001110 10110001001 101001110 111101000100 1101010 11010001011101 10111001001 111011 1000100 11100001011 110110101010 11011 11111000 11010110111 1101101010 11101001 110001010 111101100010 11101011011010100010 1101101000 01010010 100101010 10101101 1111100110 11101000010 100011001001 11011101 1011010010 1011001 010101011001 01100010010 1010101110 11010110 101101 01101011001 111101 0101101000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, she, some, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, some are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines country is repeated).
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- idea of the verse;
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