This is an analysis of the poem For Louis Pasteur that begins with:
How shall a generation know its story
If it will know no other? When, among...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefgeaeeXfX aXhchiijkfXlmdkdkcgfjbnelneXkXk fXeXkXjlffddeam njilXfnXhfelmlj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,31,15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010101010 0001110101 0101010101 11010101110 01001101011 1101010101 01110100110 0100110001 10110100100 10001110101 0101010110011 101110100110 1101010001 100010011001000 11110101010 110101101 110101011 0101010101 110101011111 10010100111 10011111110 1001010101 11111101111 11010100111 1011000101 01011100101 0101010101 11001110010 1001110110 01001100110 1101011101 1101010101 01000101110 11101111101 11010100011 01011100010 01011101111 1101110101 0101000111 10010001111 010010010001 11010101010 110001111101 1111010101 10010100101 1000010101 10011101011 1101010101 011011010010 11000011111 01010100111 11010010001 1000001111 11000011110 1110010101 01010101010 01110101010 01010101010 010010110100 1101010101 110100100100 0101010110 1001011101 1110110101 10010010101 11010101010 1011000101 111101110000 10001110011 10111101010 0100110101 1111110101 1011111101 101100100010 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 801
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, or, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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