This is an analysis of the poem Apostroph that begins with:
O MATER! O fils!
O brood continental!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdefgXXhihieXeabhafgjkXjbeXlgXchedbXjjbmbdjnjmcXflcebbbXkiddXibXXcdmnXmmXnndmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 81,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 111010 1100010 11101101010 1110101101001001 110010110 110111010101 1101010110 11011101100 11101111111001 10101111111110 110 1111011101010100 100110101001001 11 11111110101110111 11010 100100101010010 111100101111 11010101001111010 101 11011010110100110 1010011010100 1100011101111 100101110111111 111 110111011101001 11101000101010 101111110001011010 110 110101011011 11101011110100 101011110101110100 001001101 101011010100100010 1101 10111001011010 1101010010100 11011010111 110110001011 11011011001001011 1101011010111 111110111 111101111111101 11011101101110101 11111 10100101010111001110 111010101011110011 1101 111101011100 111010111101 110110110100001 1100101001001001 010110101101 1010101111010101010 111001010010110 1110110010101 1001 110101111100 1111010101 111001101001001100 1101111001 1101011111010101 101 1010110100101010 10 110011111000 110011011001000100 11111010100100 1100100101 1100101001111011 11110010011101001011 100111111 11110001111 11001101101 10010101101111111 111110111101 1111000111101 1110110111111 101101111101 11001101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4217
- Average number of words per stanza: 692
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, i, ages, and, me, to, songs, you, yet are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, songs, you, yet are repeated).
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- summary of Apostroph;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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