This is an analysis of the poem Speech To The Young : Speech To The Progress-Toward that begins with:
Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXa abb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 100110 0110 0110 010010 10001111011 01011010 1001 1100111 111101 11101001 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, live are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words say, the, live are repeated.
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