This is an analysis of the poem W. Lloyd Garrison Standard that begins with:

Vegetarian, non-resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a Christian;
Orator apt at the rhine-stone rhythm of Ingersoll....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaaXXcdeXXaXcebad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101001010110010010 10011011100100 0100010010110 10001001001001 1001111001110 0110110101001 1001001000101001 1100101000100 01010010111 110111011010 0100111011 111011011 11010110111 011101100101 11111101101011 111001001011 010001111101 10110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 925
  • Average number of words per stanza: 164
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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