This is an analysis of the poem Where Are The Temperance People? In Reply To A Query that begins with:

Where are the temperance people?
Well, scattered here and there:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abcbdefe cbgbhhdh ijgjhbgb Xkckaddd jigiiefe kdcdijdj XAbhb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010010 110111 11000101 0110101 1101110 110101 101001010 110111 11110111 1011101 101010010 10101001 11110010 11101101 1010011010 1111001 101010010 110101 1101010 00101101 111001010 1110111 101110010 110101 11110011 1101001 011010011 1110101 101110010 110111 11001110 100101 11001010 110101 11001010 110001 11010010 11001001 11111010 0110111 1111111 010111 001010100 10100101 10011010 1011101 101001010 0110101 11010010 110111 10010101 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, some, each, whether are repeated.

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