This is an analysis of the poem Song. For A Temperance Dinner that begins with:
For a Temperance dinner to which ladies were
Invited (new York Mercantile library Association,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX Xabb cXdd ccaa XeddXccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101001001100 0101110111001010 0101 01011011110 001010001101 101001001001 11001001101 01011001111 111101101011 11011011111 111011101001 01101111011 01001001011 01101101011 101001101001 11001011001 111001001001 11101001001 101001001111 101101001011 11101111111 001011001011 00100010001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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