This is an analysis of the poem The Idols of the Tribe that begins with:
A State which, in the epoch of race poisoning, dedicates itself to the cherishing of its best racial elements, must some day be master of the...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab c cdXd edfd Xghg iaia jgeg kieX dlil gbjb ibmb mfmf mdXd hcec hkdk X nbnX ahXhhghggogo aaaakakihih aiaidddd lalajaj ndndpjpj X Idkd Iqaq Iiii Ikhk egdgidkd iiki kkkk djij hdkd drirkr nhih aeke icXc agkg iXec qdmd hhgh Xeke XiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,12,11,8,7,8,1,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001001100101010010000110100111010001 11 1 0111 1111 1111 0111 0101 00101 1000 0101 11001 1101 0101 0101 1101 0101 1111 0101 1001 1001 0101 1101 0101 1001 1101 1101 1101 1001 1111 0101 1101 1001 1101 1101 1111 1001 0111 1101 1101 1101 0101 1101 1101 1101 01010 0111 1101 0101 0111 1111 1011 0101 11011 0101 1 011101010001 01100100001 01010000101 11010001 0111 0111011 010110100 0101 01110101 0110010101 010001010101 111101 01010101 11010101 01110101 0100101000101 0101 01010111 010001 011111 011001 0101 100101 1100110001 01000101 01010011101 1100001001 0101 010111 1101000101 010100010101 101010111 0101010100 1101010001 110100100101 11001 100111 111001 10001001 101001 11101 1001010101 111010001 101010101 100101001001 1101010101 1111010100 111010101 1010100 10101 1 1101 10101 1110 01011 1101 1111 0101 01001 1101 1011 1111 00111 1101 10101 1101 00111 110100101 100101111 110101101 11000111 11110011 111101001 100100101 110100101 11101 11101 111001 11101 10111 10101 10111 100111 10111 10101 10101 10101 100100101 010111 11011001 11001 011111 10101 01011101 110010101 1101000111 110101 10001 10101 10101 11101 10101 10111 10101 10100 01011101 110101 01110101110 0010100 11111001 110111 0110011101 010101 0111 0101 11110 001001 1001 00101 10101 0101 1101 0101 0101 1101 11010 1101 101001 10101 11011 01001 110100 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 42
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 191
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, our, gone are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, who, the, damn, gone are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and, how, mein at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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