This is an analysis of the poem Pennsylvania Hall that begins with:
NOT with the splendors of the days of old,
The spoil of nations, and barbaric gold;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddcceeffaagghhffiiiiaajjkkddggllddiimmhhhhaaaammnnddlljjffffaahhmmaaoobbhhhhjjhhmmmmhhddkkiiaaaXhhaaiihheekkhhcXXahhhhhhggaaccaahhhhmmppffkkffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 152,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001000101 0101010101 1101000101 11110010101 1011000101 0111010001 11001110101 11110101001 10010001001 01010010101 1101110111 10110000101 1111010101 11010101001 1101111101 1011100011 1101110001 1001010101 11001110111 110100011 1011111111 1011010101 11001000101 1111001000 1011010101 01010101001 1111010111 1110011001 11001110101 010101001 0100110101 0111000101 1101110111 0011000101 1011001101 1101000101 10101001001 1001100101 1011010101 1011000101 11010010101 001101001001 1111011101 110111101 0011010101 0111010111 1101010101 1101010101 10110111010 10010111110 0101010101 0111110101 1101011101 0101110101 11110011101 010010101 010111001 1110000101 11010101001 110110001 1101010011 1011000101 10110001001 1110011101 11010110101 1101010101 1101110001 1001010101 1011111101 1101110101 1011011101 1111000111 1111110111 1001000111 1100010111 1101010101 0111010101 0101000100 1111000101 01110100111 1101111101 1001010101 11010101110 10010100010 1101010101 1111010101 1111000111 1101110101 1000111101 0011110111 1011001101 1011001111 11110101001 1101000101 1001000101 1001001101 0011000111 0111000101 0001101101 11111001001 1101110001 1101110101 1101011101 01001101101 10110101001 10110011001 0101110101 1001110101 11011101001 01001010111 0001111111 1011011001 1101110101 0101010101 10110001101 01010100101 1101010101 1101100101 1101011101 10101110100 11110101100 1101110111 1111001111 11010101111 1101010111 0101000101 11010111010 01010101010 1001010101 11010100101 1001110101 0101001101 11010100001 0111000101 1101000111 01110001001 1011110101 0101010101 0101011101 1111010101 1101010001 0101010101 10010000110 11010100110 1011010101 1101100101 1101011101 11010010111 0101110101 010101011 11001110101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 6641
- Average number of words per stanza: 1170
- Amount of lines: 152
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, to, no, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no, one, and are repeated.
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- summary of Pennsylvania Hall;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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