This is an analysis of the poem Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819 that begins with:
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As from an ancestral oak... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaab Xcdccd Xcecce Xebeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1010101 1101011100 1111111 1110101 0110100 1 11100111 01100101 1010100 1010001 1011111 1 1011111 1010101 1010111 0010101 10011101 1 111101110 110010111 110111110 1111010010 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; two is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word two is repeated.
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