This is an analysis of the poem Hail Great Republic that begins with:
Hail great Republic of the world,
Which rear'd her empire in the West, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababCD efefG heheG ijijG kckcG eaeaCXD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010001 110100001 11010101 11010101 01010111 01011100 01110101 0111001101 11110101 11111111 010101100 01110101 01011101 11110101 110010111 010101100 1000010101 11010101 11110101 01010011 010101100 11011101 01001011 11010101 11011001 010101100 110011111 11110011 11010101 01011001 01010111 01011100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word etc at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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