This is an analysis of the poem The Greek Partisan that begins with:

Our free flag is dancing
In the free mountain air,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeaea fgfgdhdhdfdf icicjijidada
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 001101 1101110 11001001 11000101 1101010 01111111 1101110 1110111 1111010 10111101 1111110 110010 010101 1111110 011001 01100111 1101010 110111101 1101110 1111101 1101010 11110101 0100010 110010 111101 1101010 110001 11110111 0111010 110111001 0101010 1110101 1101110 11110111 1101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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