This is an analysis of the poem Ideals that begins with:
Better than land or gold or trade
Are a high ideal and a purpose true;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd dedefgfg ahahdbdb ihihdada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111111 1010110101 101100111 0011101111 111111101 110101101 1110100101 1010110101 010100111 1010100101 110111101 1110011101 110111101 1111101111 0010100111 10110101101 1101100101 110111011 110100101 1010101101 1100111111 1110100101 110101111 111111101 1110111101 1111100101 1110100111 1010110101 1111111101 1111111101 0110111101 1110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, her, they, of, their, them, we, must, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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- summary of Ideals;
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