This is an analysis of the poem Foundations Of The State that begins with:
Observe, dear Lord, what lively pranks
Are played by sentimental cranks!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabbccbbaadXddeeffgghhiicc bbddbbiieX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 11110101 10110101 11010101 11100101 01010001 10010001 11010111 01100101 11001101 01011101 11110001 01010101 01010001 11010101 110111001 11110101 01010001 11110101 0100101 01101111 11110001 01110101 11000101 11000101 11011101 11100001 01011111 010101011 00100011 01010101 01111101 11010001 01010001 011110111 11010101 11111111 11110011 101101010 111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; that, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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