This is an analysis of the poem On The Misgovernment Of The State that begins with:
A fruit, small as the garden peach,
May still be used for food....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XABAABXbCaDXDEdE XABAABabCaDXXDEdE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 110111 01111111 010100 11011101 010111 11010011 110101 11110101 110101 11111101 111111 10111101 110111 11111101 011111 01010111 110111 01111111 010100 11011101 010111 10110101 1100001 11110101 111111 11111101 111111 10111101 110111 11111101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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