This is an analysis of the poem The Premier And The Socialist that begins with:

The Premier and the Socialist
Were walking through the State: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AabaXXcXDXaX XeDXae XXbadX dbdbeX Afafdf Xafaca XdXdcX dafaXX defXaXXAebece
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00110100 010101 11010101 110101 1010101100 11101010 101010101 010101 1110000011 10111010 1011010100 10111010 101110111 111011 1110000011 10111010 1011010100 110101 1010111010 001010 101010101 010101 11010101 10010010 111100101 1010101 11111101 010101 110100101 0101010 00110100 111111 01010101 110101 1010100011 110101 1001010101 110101 11011101 010001 11110101 110001 100010111 111101 110101 110001 11011101 1101010 1011100101 100101 11010111 110111 11011101 1101110 10101000011 1010101 01100100 1101100 1010010100 101010100 00110100 111101 11010101 110111 01011101 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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