This is an analysis of the poem The Virtues Of Sid Hamet The Magician’s Rod that begins with:
The rod was but a harmless wand,
While Moses held it in his hand;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaaccddeeffgghhaaXhddaaiibaeeaajjhhkkkXeeddllddaabbeeaabbhhffddXiddXbcciiaajjggjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 86,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 11010001 111101101 100100101 11010101 01010100 01110101 11000101 110000101 011101001 11111111 10110001 11110111 01010001 10011101 11011101 11110001 101110101 100101101 01010101 11110111 01010101 110101100 100011101 11110101 10010101 11010101 01110101 01011101 111011001 11010101 11010111 00011101 10110101 01010101 11011101 01110111 11010101 11101101 110010101 110100111 11110101 11110111 11110110 01110001 11010101 11110101 11011101 11000101 01001101 11010001 01100101 11100101 11010111 110101001 11110100 11100111 11000101 01010101 11110110 11011001 01000101 11010101 11111101 10010111 11010101 10010111 01010111 1101110110 11111101 11010101 01011101 110101010 101110010 11010101 010010101 110010011 10010101 11111111 01111101 111100101 110100110 11001101 11011111 11111100 01100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3010
- Average number of words per stanza: 556
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, his, nor, it are repeated.
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