This is an analysis of the poem Religious Progress that begins with:
Professor dear, I think it queer
That all these good religions... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXb cddd ceee Xbab XeXe Xece XXde cfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011101 1110010 11111111 1111010 111111001 1110100 01010101 11101110 01010111 1111110 11010101 0111010 11010111 1101110 01110101 0100010 110010101 0111110 11111100 1111010 110111001 0100110 11010101 1111010 11011101 1111010 01010101 1101010 11111110 1111000 11111101 0111010 01110101 1101010 11011111 1100110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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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