This is an analysis of the poem The Temperance Movement that begins with:
A POWER is stirring—a broad light has shone
Amid the nation’s—in the wilderness ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcXcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01001001111 0101000100 0011010101 10010010101 0101010101 1101100111 1100110111 10011101001 1100111101 1101011101 1100110101 11011100001 10101100101 11110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 675
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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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- summary of The Temperance Movement;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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