This is an analysis of the poem Hail To The Lord's Anointed that begins with:
Hail to the Lord's Anointed
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fgfg fgfg fhfh bifi jdjd bebe dada kbkb lmlm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010 110101 1001010 011110 1101010 011101 0101110 110101 111101 111101 0100101 111101 1101010 010101 1101110 110111 1111110 010101 1111110 0100101 0111010 110101 1100010 010101 01000010 100111 0101010 010101 1111011 111011 1101011 011101 1111010 1010111 1101010 1101111 1111010 110101 0101010 010011 0101110 010101 1111110 111100 0101110 010001 0111110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
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