This is an analysis of the poem The Young Patriot Leader that begins with:

Oh! he stands beneath the sun, that glorious Fated One
Like a martyr or conqueror, wearing... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXXdXeaXafc XcXagaeafaahXhgbXbaadaabXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,26,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101011100101 1010110010 10101010010001 0110010010 10101010110101 101001010 1100111011001 101010110 00101010010001 1110010010 10101011110110 1110110010 10100011010001 1011011010 11111011010100 11111100010 11111111010101 111111010 10100101110111 1011010010 111000111100101 111011001 10101011111100 111111001 11101111010101 1011101010 001010110010101 10101101010 11101111010001 1111101110 00100011011111 1010101010 10100111001111 0010110110 11101011011011 1111011010 1010001110101 110111010 11111111110001 1110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 994
  • Average number of words per stanza: 194
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, of, he, his, as, our are repeated.

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

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