This is an analysis of the poem By An Evolutionist that begins with:
By an Evolutionist
The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab cdede Xfg X fg c ahah XXhbhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,5,3,1,2,1,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110000 01101001001001 101111110 1010111011111 111011010 1 01101010110101010 111010101010101 1010101001110110 111111111010101 1 11111111111011101 111100101111001 11 1111011111011001 111101001011101 1 0110101011110111 111101101010101 110010011011001 101010111110001 1 11100101111101001 111001011001001010 1111100110101011 1111010010010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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