This is an analysis of the poem After Lessons Have Been Taught that begins with:
After lessons have been taught...
Step aside and take pride....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDbeeXb dfdaXabfb X de X AABGE XAX XXb XeX Abab XAX AABGEaXABCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,1,2,1,5,3,3,3,4,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 101111 1010110011 101001010 01010011001 110100010101101 001110 11010101 0101001101 1111 11010101 110110100 11011111 11101011001 010100101 01011100010 0101001001 110101010101010 1110100001101 1111110011 00011010011111 1101101001110 11 11001100111 11101111 11001011 00100101111 1 0111101 111111100 11100100101010100 01011110111010100 101110111101 1 11010010 111101000 1010101 110110110101 100010110101 1001001000001011101 1 0111101 111111100 11 11001100111 11101111 11001011 00100101111 11010111011101 1010101 101111 1010110011 101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to is repeated.
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