This is an analysis of the poem On A Picture Of John D. Rockefeller that begins with:
If thou, Columbia, dost from this, thy son--
The condor beak and python eyes--recoil, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXcdXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01010010011 0101110101 1010001101 1100110111 0101110101 1111111101 0101110111 0111111100 0001011001 0001010101 0101110001 0101010100 1001000101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 596
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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