This is an analysis of the poem George L. Stearns that begins with:
He has done the work of a true man,--
Crown him, honor him, love him.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb adad baba cece aeae XeXe ffff gfgf eaeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010011 1110111 11011010 1101011 11010110 10010111 10010111010 111101111 101001010 0100101 101011110 010111 11011001 110001 11011111 010111 101011110 01001010 11010010010 11001010 10111011 1110111 0111010 0100111 111101110 01001010 111011100 01001010 1101001 11100111 111011101 0100101 110111010 110010 110011010 111010 101001010 0100100 1111010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; him, and, his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word him at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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