This is an analysis of the poem The Revolution At Market-Hill that begins with:

From distant regions Fortune sends
An odd triumvirate of friends;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddbbeXddffXcccgghfhhXhaacciijjbbkkaaccbbbbbXaallaaeebbakmmkkXkaabbddaallaaccllhhllnnccccbbhfoojoooccaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 110,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 11010001 110101010 110101010 10010101 110000101 11010111 01010101 111101010 011101011 01010101 11010101 01010101 11010110 01010100 11011101 110101010 111111010 10010101 01010101 11010101 00011111 01110111 01011101 110101011 011111110 11010001 01111111 110001010 011101011 0111001011 1111001100 10110111 01010111 10010101 11011101 11010111 00110101 11010101 11010001 11111101 11000101 11011011 11110001 11011111 01011111 01010101 11011101 11010101 10011101 11010101 11110100 11010101 11010011 11110101 11010001 11011101 11010111 11011101 01011111 11011101 11010001 11010111 11011001 11010101 111100111 11011101 01010101 011111010 011001010 11010101 11000101 11010111 1001100111 11010101 01010101 01010001 11011111 11011101 10010001 01011111 01010101 11111101 01010101 010101111 110101010 10111101 11111101 110101010 111111010 111101001 01010111 11111101 11111111 11111111 11000101 11110101 11110101 101111011 110111010 110110110 101111010 01010101 110111010 1101111100 10110001100 11110111 11010101 11110101 01011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3898
  • Average number of words per stanza: 720
  • Amount of lines: 110
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).

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