This is an analysis of the poem Post-Prandial that begins with:
PHI BETA KAPPA
WENDELL PHILLIPS, ORATOR; CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, POET... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a X bbcX bbbb bbabb dddd eedd ccff XXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010 101010010101010 1 11110101011101 0111010110101 10100110111101 10101110110101 1011110110101 1110010010101 1101010010001 11011111110001 001101101010101 101000101110111 111001110011111 01 00101010010101 111010101111001 0111110011111 101011110010111 11110101111101 111011100111101 10101010110101 11110110110101 1111110111101 1111010110101 1101010111101 101101010101001 101101111011101 1101010101101 1100111010101001 0101110110111 0101110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, to, we, it, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Post-Prandial;
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- idea of the verse;
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