This is an analysis of the poem To Pennsylvania that begins with:
O STATE prayer-founded! never hung
Such choice upon a people's tongue,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbbbdeedffghhgiibjjbkkadXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11010101 1100111 11111101 111101001 110001 01110001 01000101 011101 11000101 01001101 001101 110101010 010111010 010101 01110111 00111100 011101 11110101 10010001 100101 01111101 11011101 110101 11001101 011001001 110111 11010100 11000100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 938
- Average number of words per stanza: 175
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words such, to, and are repeated.
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- summary of To Pennsylvania;
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- idea of the verse;
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