This is an analysis of the poem To A Foil'D European Revolutionaire that begins with:
COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister!
Keep on! Liberty is to be subserv'd, whatever occurs;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcXd edXdef XXafe dgedgXbeXXgehi hXe bgjfji Xd XkgkeXdeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,5,14,3,6,2,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101110 1110000010011001 1010101111110110 10010 11001001100000101110 1000 101001001010101010 01110101 11010110010110100 11010110000001 110100111100101010 110100101110100 101001001 11010001111 110101010 1110110010010100110 11100111101011 110100111010 011011010 010100100101110011 01 0101101010110 101010101110101 1011111 011011010101 0110110111111010 11 0100101011110 111 011111100101111 1110100111100110 10110001010 110011001001010110 101101 011101010001 11111100010110 1111110101110101 0101001 11011001001001000010 11001 101011001010 11010101001001 1111010111 111111111111111111 1110101 110110010100101 001100001001001111 1 011010110 0111001 1001101011010011 0101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; or, revolt, of, and, in, go, to, it, for, i, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines great is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word great at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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