This is an analysis of the poem Hail To The Chief that begins with:
AGAIN we greet the patient heart,
The conference-guiding master-hand,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababc dcd ef eXaca c gfgf gbgb h chcibXib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,2,5,1,4,4,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110101 010010101 11010101 11110101 010011101 01010001 11111101 11010100 11010101 11110101 010100101 01010100 01010101 01010101 11110001 01010101 11010101 01011101 11011001 01011101 010001001 01110011 11110101 11110101 01011101 110100101 010101101 11010111 110111001 11110101 110100101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 Hail To The Chief;
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- idea of the verse;
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