This is an analysis of the poem Laval: Noble Educator that begins with:
LAVAL, High Priest of Knowledge, who first scanned
The years to come, and saw the pow'rs that lay...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddc effeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010111 0001110111 0101011111 1101010101 1101010101 0111010101 1101110001 1100010101 1101010101 1101010101 0111010101 1111010101 0101110101 0111110000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Laval: Noble Educator;
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