This is an analysis of the poem France, The 18th Year Of These States that begins with:
A GREAT year and place;
A harsh, discordant, natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc daebeeXcb fXcXg dhffXa dgXXbXXgcdghacg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,5,6,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111 0101001111001010 1101101 110101101 110010101 10011011110010010 1010101101010 1111001001010100 101011011110100 10 11110010100111111 00101000001 1101111101101 1010 1110100100 111010101111 1110110010011 11001111 110101110100101 010101 111110110001 1111111001100 11010101010 1110011001 1111011100111100 1010010111110110 01111011 1001111010100111 1111 11111010011 1111100101010 111101010101100 11101001001001010 101111010 11101110010111 0101001101010 1010100101010 1011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; here, too, and, i, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, could, here, and, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the is repeated).
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