This is an analysis of the poem The Prophecy Of Samuel Sewall that begins with:
Up and down the village streets
Strange are the forms my fancy meets,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXfgXgaaagg bbhgiiaabbggccbbffbbbXbb dXbbdcccjjjddbX ggaakkllbbggllffddcX dddggbbbhhkXmmmffcccchhfflleeffcc Xbbffiibbiiccffbb ggnniihhmmbbbooccbbggccgggXXffffcccccbbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,24,15,20,33,17,41,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 11011101 1011100111 11010011 010101101 110100101 101010011 1010100111 10110101 0111001001 10100110 10100011 01010101 110100110 110011101 111101001 001010100 011011101 11101111 111101101 10110101 10100100101 00110011110 0010101101 1010011101 0110110101 11110100111 0010101101 110010101 110101001 11010111 010100101 10110101 011100101 111010111 111111101 11100100101 010011111 1010100101 00101011001 010110101 10100100101 1010100101 0010101111 101001000 0010010100 110010101 101111101 101011110011 101100100 1010100101 1100100101 001010101 0010011101 11101001 111111101 001110101 110100101 111110101 101101110 11110001 1010101101 1010100101 101100001 10011101 1101000111 1110101 10011101 100101101 1110100101 100101101 100110101 10101011001 110100111 1110010111 0010100101 0010111111 11111101 100110100 111100101 0101101001 0010100101 100100101 10111100 1110111 110110101 011100101 111110111 011110101 010100101 110100100 1111101011 11101110 1001011001 1100101101 111101101 111100111 101100101 101110111 1111111 1101001011 11100101 010100101 011110111 101110101 1011101001 1011010101 00100100101 011101101 1111011001 111110111 010010111 1101101100 1111100111 110101111 1011110101 110100101 010101101 101101101 110011110 111110111 010110101 010100111 111010111 0010110101 1101010111 0100100101 1010011111 0100100101 1111100101 110101101 1110101101 0100101101 111100111 11110111 1110100111 110111101 111101110 011111101 111111001 010111001 110101111 11101001011 010100111 1010100111 1011100101 111101111 110100101 10110100101 101010101 11110101 111101111 1010110101 110010101 1101100101 010100101 010101001 10100101 010110111 111101101 10100101 0011100101 001100101 11111111 1010101101 111110111 001011111 1010010101 010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 833
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 169
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, i, of, his, round, as, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no, in, to, the, a, as are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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