This is an analysis of the poem Immigration that begins with:

Now Jordan's land of promise is the burden of my song.
Perhaps you've heard him lecture, and blow about it strong;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb cdee ddccccffXccee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11010100010011 0111110110101 01111101010011 11011111010101 1101110111101 0111111111011 11010111110111 001111011110111 11111101011111 11110101010101 01011101011101 1011111000100101 11101101011110101 11110111110001 1110011101110101 110101010011001 01010111010101 11101111001101 11010111010101 01010101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you are repeated.

    The author used the same word here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Immigration;
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