This is an analysis of the poem Phi Beta Kappa Poem that begins with:
Harvard, 1914
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcbbdefbghbbgihjchXikdcdlXbgimidnnngjhfaacklgjXkfihjobdiicgjaicpagblclldhkclbjqjbbabcjlbpchrgcckcbcdkrjkbbbbiidXgnchpgjsjipgejopjchcjjcfjkdflkcmpidlXipnXeilkmoXbjjcbkcsjcpcbXjdcbccpcXXlapqiabpgjbcgijpcgXkpojkdnpbfljq
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 218,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101 1111011101 0101011101 10100010101 1101010011 11010111101 1101010111 1000110101 0101111111 01001010101 11010100111 00101000101 010010101010 1101110100 0101010001 01010100001 1001011111 1101010101 1101101001 1001111101 00110111001 1011010100 11110110100 1111010001 0101010011 1111010101 0101010101 11010101001 1110110101 11110001001 1101100101 0101010001 0101001100 0100011101 1101011111 00101011101 01111000101 1101010111 11010101001 10101010101 01100011111 1011101101 1111010101 0101011001 1101010101 1101001101 1101011100 0101010101 0101010111 1101110101 11001101001 01001010101 1101000101 110000100101 1001010100 0100110101 1111110011 1011011101 1111010011 1101100101 0101010101 10010100101 1001110111 0101000100 10110001001 0101110001 1011011111 10010010101 1011010011 0100011111 0100010101 0100010001 11001111001 11101110001 0101010001 1001111101 1001001011 01010010011 101010010011 0100010101 0001010100 01010011110 1101011101 11001110001 0101110011 0010001111 1100101101 1101010001 1111110111 0011010101 1101010111 1101100101 1100010001 0111010101 1100010001 0101011101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1100010101 1101110001 0100110101 0101100101 0101000111 00100010111 01010010101 1101010101 0101100101 1101110101 1101001101 0011000101 0100110111 0101010101 11010001010 0101010100 1101110111 1010001101 1101010101 1111010001 1000100100001 1111110001 1111000101 1101010111 1101010101 1001000101 01001010101 1101010111 1011010101 0101010100 1100111101 0101010101 1111010101 1001010001 1111110101 1111111101 1101010101 1111010101 1011111101 0101010001 11000110101 110101000101 0110010001 1101010101 1101011101 0111010101 1001000101 1111110101 0111010101 1101010101 0101010101 11010101 1001000101 0100010111 1111001101 1101011000 11001010011 1001010101 1101011111 1011000101 0100110101 1111011100 0100011101 1111010101 0100101101 1111010101 01100001101 1101010101 0111000111 1101010111 0101010101 1101011101 010010101 1010110101 0101000101 1101110001 001110100 1101010101 1101110101 11010101011 11110111001 11011100100 0101000101 1111010101 1011110101 1001111011 01010010101 1101011101 11110011001 1011001101 11111001010 1111000101 1011010011 0111000101 1101010100 0101010001 1101011100 0101010101 0111010111 1101010001 1101001101 1101010101 0101101101 01011010111 1000000101 0100011111 1111011101 0101000101 0100010100 10010100001 1101010011 100111000101 0100010111 1111110101 1111010101 0101000101 1101010101 0110010101 01110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 9080
- Average number of words per stanza: 1579
- Amount of lines: 218
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, our, no are repeated.
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