This is an analysis of the poem Letter From A Missionary Of The Methodist Episcopal Church South, In Kansas, To A Distinguished Politician. Douglas Mission 1854. that begins with:
LAST week — the Lord be praised for all His mercies
To His unworthy servant! — I arrived... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdebafaggXbhbhXaaaidjjaXijakaXglcdcXkbgmjbgnkaijgcXXfbajadjenXgahnjckoklbhaaXkXomjXaoaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 90,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010111010 0001010101 1101010111 11010101010 0100010011 01011101010 01011111010 100001111000 0101010101 0100110001 1101010100 1101010100 11010101010 01111101110 11001111110 11001101010 1101011110 1001111111 1011010111 10111111010 0101010100 10010101010 1001001101 010100101010 01010111110 10100101100 01010101010 11010101010 1111110101 0101000101 1101000101 1101010111 0100110101 0101010111 11010010001 01010001110 1001010001 10011001110 1101011111 01010111010 11010011101 10010111110 01111100110 11011110111 0010101110010 1111111101 0101010101 010001101010 11011100010 11010111001 1101010110 1100011111 11010100011 0100110100 1111110111 0101111101 01100101010 1101110001 1111011111 01010100110 0111011101 1111010101 0111010101 11110101000 11010101010 01010100101 01110101010 1011010101 1101011100 1101001101 1100110111 1101111000 1100011101 01110111001 1011010101 10110111010 01110101010 11010101010 11010101010 1101010101 10100010101 1101001111 10110011110 0100110101 0101010101 10010101010 11110111111 11010101110 11010100101 0111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3854
- Average number of words per stanza: 680
- Amount of lines: 90
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
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