This is an analysis of the poem A Nation Once Again that begins with:

When boyhood's fire was in my blood
I read of ancient freemen...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcB dedeabaX fgfgabaX bhbhabaB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101011 1101010 11111101 1101111 11111111 110101 110010100 010101 10111101 1111011 11110101 1111011 01010111 010111 01011111 110110 01011101 1101110 101001101 1101110 11010111 110101 11011111 010110 11110101 1110110 11001101 1101010 11111101 111101 11110101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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