This is an analysis of the poem Preachers Seated On Bleachers that begins with:
High and mighty,
Spewing lofty prophecies....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXbXacdbebdfbbdb dbbfefgbdcdceb XefcX g X X egX dbd XbXbefdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,14,5,1,1,1,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 1010100 11010110 1 100110 1100110 110100100 1100001 011110 10110 00100110 0101111 11101 111010010 01 111001 10 110101 11010 1101001 11010100 1101011 010001001 01101 110001 11100010 001011 11101 01111 1101 10010100 010 1 111 111001 1 10001011 0010111 110100100 0101111 111111 110101 111 01111101010 01010 1111110 11011010 111 010111 1100111 11101 1 10
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word but is repeated.
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