This is an analysis of the poem Welcome To Teachers that begins with:
Read before the Lee County Institute, at Fort Madison, Iowa, December 27, 1873.
Sculptors of the finest marble,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcbdefe dXghgfedX feheiaca djXjicXcXfaaahccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,9,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101011110010001011 10001010 1001101 10011110 0010101 10001010 0010111 101110110 1110101 01100110 101011 1 11101010 0111101 10101010 1011100 11111110 1110100 11101010 0110111 11101010 1010001 01101110 1110101 11101110 1011101 11101010 1011101 10101100 1010101 10111111 10101011 10111010 1011101 11101010 1010101 10101010 1010101 11001010 0011101 10101010 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words words, imitate are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word vain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Welcome To Teachers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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