This is an analysis of the poem Latter-Day Warnings that begins with:
WHEN legislators keep the law,
When banks dispense with bolts and looks,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gege hihi bjbj dddd hjhj klkl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 11010111 1101111 11010101 11110111 11011101 11000101 11010101 11011111 11010111 11111111 0111101 11011111 11011111 11010101 111111001 11110111 11010001 010111001 11010101 100100111 11110101 110101001 11010101 11011101 010010001 11010101 11011111 11001101 11111101 101100001 11010101 11110101 11011101 1111111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; when, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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