This is an analysis of the poem Dear Harp Of My Country that begins with:
Dear Harp of my Country! in darkness I found thee,
The cold chain of Silence had hung o'er thee long.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc XdXdeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110010111 011010111011 110111011011 11111011011 011011011010 11001101101 1111110011010 110011001011 110110110110 01101001111 110011011110 11111101011 0010010010110 110111111001 1111011010010 110110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thee, of, thy are repeated.
The author used the same word dear at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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