This is an analysis of the poem A Song that begins with:
COME, I will make the continent indissoluble;
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaa XXaaXaa Xaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001000 1010110101101101 101010101 001011 00111011 10101011110110100 01001010100111110 010 101010001001101110 1 101011 10101011 1110110100011111 1111111011 001011 0011001011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; make, i, of, you, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, with, by, for, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines comrades is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word comrades at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of A Song;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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