This is an analysis of the poem Liberty, Equality, Fraternity that begins with:
Long have I searched the Earth for liberty
In desert places and lands far abroad... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbabc XcdcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011100 0101011101 1101110010 1101010111 1001001101 1011010100 1011111101 11000101111 1001011100 1111111111 1011011101 1011101101 0111010011 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
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