This is an analysis of the poem For President, Leland Stanford that begins with:

Mahomet Stanford, with covetous stare,
Gazed on a vision surpassingly fair:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXXbbXXccffffccggggddXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001001001 1101010001 110100101 0100100101 1011000001 0100100101 101010101 1001001001 100100101 01111001001 1001001000 0101101101 10110101 100100101 10011110 1010101001 10111101 1110101101 11001001001 1001011001 100101011 11101101 11001101001 10100110101 111101101 100100111 101100101 10011111 100101001 10101101 100100111 1100110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 207
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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