This is an analysis of the poem Rev. Lemuel Wiley that begins with:
I preached four thousand sermons,
I conducted forty revivals,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXXbbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 101010010 1011010 11101 11000100001 11010111 1111010001 1101010101 01100101110 10010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 10
- 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.
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- summary of Rev. Lemuel Wiley;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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