This is an analysis of the poem Reaction that begins with:
Let us, dear friend, in mutual strength arise
Against our tyrant Custom, and demand... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba acacdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110100101 0111010101 1111011101 1101010101 1101011101 1101011101 1011111101 0001010101 1110010001 0111011101 0101110001 1101111111 1001010101 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in are repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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