This is an analysis of the poem Theodore Roosevelt that begins with:

Now with the dust that bore him he is one,
Silent, into into earth's silent maw ye laid him. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacacadadaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001111101 1000001101111 1001100101 11011001111 1101110101 0101000101 1101010101 1001000101 1111110101 11001100101 1111110101 0111000101 1111011101 1110010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; him is repeated.

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