This is an analysis of the poem Poem At The Centennial Anniversary Dinner Of The Massachusetts Medical Society that begins with:
JUNE 8, 1881
THREE paths there be where Learning's favored sons,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbccddaa aaeXff cccceeggee hhaaff cceeiijjeeff aaggcckk jjlleeXmlleeeecc ddaakknnff aaeeggnneebb ooccaaeepXooaa eekkppppaaff ffaaeepp llggccqqaaaa cckXmmeellgg bbaaeefX aaaa cckXppffaa ccffbbppXgfXaa ggffllff aXeeageellaarrffccXneeggggeellcccckkee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,6,10,6,12,8,16,10,12,14,12,8,12,12,8,4,10,14,8,38,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111 1110110101 1001110101 101100101011 1101010101 1001010001 11010100101 0101010101 1101010111 1111010101 1101000101 1101010101 1011010101 1111011101 10111101010 1001010101 1111010101 01011101001 1001010101 11010010101 1101110101 1100110101 0101010101 0011011101 0011010101 1101011101 11111111001 10010011101 0101010101 11011100101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010101 0111110101 0101010101 0001010101 0110011101 1101010111 1011010101 0101111101 0101010101 1101111101 1011000011 01100001001 1111111101 1111010111 0101000101 10010000101 1001010001 11010100101 01010100101 1101011101 01010101011 1001010101 1101000101 1111010101 1001110101 11110010101 0101010001 1101010001 11010101001 1101110101 01011101001 1111011101 0101000101 1011110101 0101010001 1111001001 10110101011 1100010101 1101101101 1101011101 1111011101 1101011101 0101110101 0101010101 1011110101 1111010101 1111011101 1111001101 1101011101 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 11011101001 1011010101 1011010101 1011011111 111000101001 1101011101 1101010101 1101111101 1111000101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101111111 11010100101 1101000101 1111010111 10010010101 1111010101 1101011101 1101110001 1101010101 101010010111 0001010101 1011011101 11010100101 1011110101 0101010111 11010101001 11001010001 1111010101 1101110101 1101010111 1101010101 11010110101 1111000101 10110100101 1101010111 1011010011 11110011101 1011011101 1011110111 1011010101 1101010101 0111110101 1001010111 1101010111 0101000101 1111010101 1111110111 1101000101 11110111001 1001110111 0101011111 1101010101 1101000101 110101010001 100010111100 1111110101 1101010101 11110101001 1111100101 1011011101 1111010101 1010010101 11001111111 1011011101 1101010101 1110110011 1111110101 01010100001 0011001001 1101010111 110111010110 1101010111 1011110101 1101010111 01011100111 1011011101 10110010101 1101110101 1101110110 1111010111 1101010100 1101010111 1101010001 1111010111 0110010111 1001111101 0101110001 01010010101 1101010101 1001010111 1011011101 1011010101 11001100101 1001010010 0101010101 11110100101 1101010101 11110101001 1101111101 1101010101 11001000101 0011010101 01111100101 110100101001 1101010101 0101000111 0111010101 1001010101 01010101000 1001110101 11010100101 010010101001 0011110100 1111110011 01001010101 1001010101 1110010101 1111010101 1111001001 1101010111 0101010111 01001110101 11001010101 1001111111 0101001101 1111 010101 1101111101 1101110101 110100100101 0111010101 0101010001 1101010101 1001100101 1011001111 1111111101 0101110111 11010010101 1111010001 10010101001 1101110101 10110011111 1101110101 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 232
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of, our, in, thy, where, him, to, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words each, his, who, no, where, what, to, one, the are repeated.
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