This is an analysis of the poem What I Have Seen #5 that begins with:
I saw a Christian, a temperance man,
Casting his ballot one day at the polls:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb cbcXbb dXdXee fgfghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101001001 1001011101 110111111 01001011001 110111011 11111011011 1101001001 1001111001 111011101001 00001111111 110101010 11101111010 1111101001 1111011001 11001001101 111111111110 110111011 11111011011 1101011001 1101111011 101101011001 111001101011 1101111011 11111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, may, be, i, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines does, is, had, do are repeated).
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- summary of What I Have Seen #5;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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