This is an analysis of the poem Jefferson Howard that begins with:

My valiant fight! For I call it valiant,
With my father's beliefs from old Virginia:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXbcXXXXdXdXdXdcdaab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111010 01100101010 101001111 11010010010 100110110 001001010110 01001001010 10111011 0111010010 110110101 1011011101 110101111 1001001010 1001010010 1001110001 010111111 111111101 10101110 111101010 11101111001 110111111 1001010010 1111100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 911
  • Average number of words per stanza: 164
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, i are repeated.

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