This is an analysis of the poem To Theodore Roosevelt that begins with:
SHALL we to great Deliverers be blind
If they within our sight have daily wrought?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaX ccdbd b eaee affbc bX cXc cdcca gaag h bhhba aiiddXddddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,1,4,5,2,3,5,4,1,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010001 0101111101 1101011101 1001010011 1010110101 1101111101 1101010101 1111110101 1001010001 0101000111 1001000101 1111110001 0101110101 11000100101 1101010101 1101110111 01110111001 11001010101 0111010011 1101010111 1011110101 1001010011 1101010101 10001010110 1000100010001 101110101001 1101000101 1110111101 1101010101 1111010001 1101011101 1101000101 01001010101 11010010001 1101010101 11110100110 0110011101 1001010101 0101010101 1011010101 1110001001 1101011111 11010100101 1101010101 11110100101 1001011101 1101010111 10111111111 1001110101 1101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 51
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, can are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word can is repeated.
The author used the same word shall at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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