This is an analysis of the poem The Candid Candidate that begins with:

Alfred Ebenezer Jackson was a very earnest man,
Who aspired to be a statesman, and he consequently ran... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcX ddee ffbb ggbb hhdd ccbb bbbb dddd ggXX bXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010101010101 101000101110001 101000101010100 101011001010101 10101010101001 111001101010100 10111001001011111 111110101010101 101110100010111 1010010100110101 1110101011001010 1010111010011010 101010101110111 101010101011101 101010100010101 0111101001010100 111110101010101 111011101111111 1101101001001101 111010101011101 111010101010111 101100101110111 101011101110101 011110101110111 101110111110101 111000101110111 10101010010101 101111010011101 111011111011001 111010110010100 111010101010100 11010101110100 111010101111101 111010100010011 111010101000100 111110101110100 111011111111101 111000101110111 011010101011100 1110101001011000 101010101010101 010001001111001 101111101011111 101010100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, for, of, i, ' are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Candid Candidate;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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