This is an analysis of the poem Hiram Scates that begins with:
I tried to win the nomination
For president of the County-board...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddaEFgHXcaXbhXbaceEFgHXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 110100101 11110110010 01010010110 111000010 010010101 101010100 10011101 11111101 100111010 101111011 10100010 1100101010 111101 11011000010 11110111 001010001 1111111110 1011001010 0001011010 11001111100 101010100 10011101 11111101 100111010 10010100100 1001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 963
- Average number of words per stanza: 169
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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