This is an analysis of the poem The Executive's Death that begins with:
Merchants have multiplied more than the stars of heaven.
Half the population are like the long grasshoppers ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXXbabXXbXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011101010 1010101101110 110010001001 01011011110101 011001010101110 001011100110100 111111001 1011101001110 111110111101 1111010111110 01110101110 010010101111 11100010010 10101001011 11110110110 1010101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 872
- Average number of words per stanza: 157
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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