This is an analysis of the poem The Higher Unity that begins with:

The Rev. Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may have been devoured by the natives, as... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XaXa bcXc dede XXXX bfXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110101101000010000100101001111100101010111000100001000101001010000110100110100110 0111010 110011 11010001 110101 11010101 1101001 10010101 1101001 11111101 111101 11111100 111101 110010101 010111 11010101 010100 1100110100 101001 1011011010 10100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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 word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Higher Unity;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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