This is an analysis of the poem The Village Atheist that begins with:
Ye young debaters over the doctrine
Of the soul's immortality...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdedXdaXdXebccbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010010 00110100 11111010100 100010100100 00100 110110 101101 110100010100010 1110010111010 10101011 101101010010 11010 10011110010 11101010 101000101 1010001010 110111100 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, immortality are repeated.
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