This is an analysis of the poem America, A Prophecy that begins with:
The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc,
When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacaXcdeadbXXddaeX XXXXf g hXXdfXhgccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,5,1,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010010010010111 111111010100101 0111010100101010 10010111010111 01000101011101 110001010110111 010001101111101 11010011101111 11000101111101 111111111000101 11010101110101 10111111111101 011101000101010 10010101010111 010100011001010 01010010011111 100100111101101 11011111011101 11111111100111 01111011111011 1010101111100 010101011101010 100101110101001 010110101110111 11011101000101 111101001110101 11111111101111 1101001110100100 11110111010011 1101001110100010 01111111000101 110100100111001 01011101010001 11010011101101 11110111110111 10010101011101 000101100011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 578
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, sometimes, my, i, and, thee, in are repeated.
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