This is an analysis of the poem National Policy that begins with:

Oor fader lef' ole France behin', dat's
many year ago,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabbcX cXaXdXXd deXXXfbf dgXgaXXX eghXXdXX XXaiXibX adadXjkj dXdXXkck dXdhXXXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111101 10101 11110111110 101 11011101101 11 11111100110 110 1101111111 1100 1111111011 01000 10110111110 100 111101010011 11 1111010111 1111 1101110111 1001 1111111110 001 110111111101 11 01110111011 101 1101111001 10101 101110111111 100 110101111101 01 11010101101 100 11110111110 101 1101111111 0101 01110101111 10 111111110 0100 110101111101 11 1111011111 1111 10110111111 110 0111101111 10001 1101011111000 1 11110101101 11 1011111111 0101 0111010101 1111 11010101110 11 10111101111 1 1000100001111 01 11010110110 10 01010101110 110 11010100101 10 1110111011 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; de is repeated.

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