This is an analysis of the poem The Boston Patriotic Song that begins with:
Ye sons of Columbia who bravely have fought,
For those rights which unstain'd from your sires have descended. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccdD bebebbbF ghghbbbfbebeiiiFdedebbbFjajabbbF ieieeeeF bk bklllFXckckbbbdD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,32,8,2,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010011011 1111010111010 111101011011 1111011110010 101011 111001 001001101001 111010010001 101101101101 001111101001 111010110010 01001011001 00100100100010 111001 101001 111001011001 111011100 01011011011 110010110010 101101001111 1010010010010 111001 111011 11011101001 111011100 11011110001 1010011011010 11101101001 1110010111010 111011 101101 01111001011 111011100 1010001101001 111010010010 101101001001 1011011010010 101001 011111 11101111001 111011100 11011001001 111110010110 111001011001 1011011011010 101001 1001101 001111011001 111011100 111000111001 1110011011010 111101111101 111111011010 101101 111101 111011011101 111011100 101001101011 011111010010 101101011001 1010010010010 01001 001011 1100011001001 111011100 11001101001 1010101100110 01101011111 1110110010010 111111 11001 11101001011 111010010001 101101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 464
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, of, our, its, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, for are 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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- summary of The Boston Patriotic Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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