This is an analysis of the poem Evolutionary Hymn that begins with:
Lead us, Evolution, lead us
Up the future's endless stair;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcb XdXdcd eeeeae fdfdXd ghgXchXfgfghd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011 1010101 11111111 1010001 10101010 1111111 11101110 0001111 11111011 1110101 10101110 1110101 01101010 1010011 10101010 1011101 101101110 01101111 11001110 1011101 10100110 10101011 10101010 0111101 11111010 1110101 11111010 10111 10101010 1010101 11101010 1001100 11111110 1010100 10101101 1010110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; us, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word while is repeated.
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