This is an analysis of the poem The Hive At Gettysburg that begins with:

IN the old Hebrew myth the lion's frame,
So terrible alive,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddedefafagcgcacacehehijij
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0011010101 110001 1101011101 0100111 1111110101 110101 01011111001 010011 1101010101 010111 11011100101 100101 1011010101 011101 01011111001 011111 0101010100 110111 0111110111 111101 011001101 011101 0101010111 110101 1101001101 010001 0101110101 001101 0101110101 100111 0101010101 011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1136
  • Average number of words per stanza: 204
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; to, and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, from are repeated.

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