This is an analysis of the poem Luther Benson that begins with:

AFTER READING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
POOR victim of that vulture curse... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeedd ddfagghhfa ccbbiigXcc Xfjjkkjjbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100100100 11001101 110100101 01010101 010010101 11010111 01010101 11110001 01110101 10011111 01010101 11111111 11010101 01111101 01110100 111101001 01001100 11010101 11100101 11110001 11101100 11010111 11000101 01010001 01010101 11000101 01010101 11010011 110110111 11110101 01111101 11110101 01010101 01010101 11010101 01110111 01010101 11110101 01011111 11010111 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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