This is an analysis of the poem The Generations of Men that begins with:

A governor it was proclaimed this time,
When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdeXfgXehfdiXajeXbekXiflcfdfkbffXmXXniomllbXXjkklfeXpXXbXehekXmXXXXXgkfhdlfkljXkoXdXXeickgmaXXqXXXiXgieaXlprprpXXkqgeXXXjXbhllkpkkgjnekjXecXXdqXbgigfXXXXXXifXXjkaXXibfjljjgfgfXnjlXaXbgfcnXXXccnkjifbjhcokXkcXnXeXXXdXXgXXekj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 225,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100010101 111111001100 01010011010 1100111001 01111101101 1111010111 1111000101 0111010011 01000101001 1101110001 1111010101 1101000101 01110101110 1011111101 1011111101 0101010101 11010111010 0111110100 11110101010 0111011001110 01111110110 11011101101 00100110010 110111001001 1010011101 1101010111 1001110100 1111011101 0101010111 1011110111 0100111101 1101111111 10111101010 01111101110 110111 1111 1101010101 110101 1101 01011011110 01010001001 1101011001 0011001001 1101010001 110101001010 11110111010 11010110101 1111 1111011 11111011010 01010101110 11010100010 11010111110 10001111010 1101110101 1100110100 1001011101 1101110101 1001101110010 11111100010 11100100010 1011000101 1111111111 11111110111 11011101100 1111110101 110101011010 10010001001 11110001100 10011101001 110 1010101 1011010101 0101011001 1101010111 1101110111 1111110101 01110101011 1011011001 0101110101 011100011110 11010111111 1011001111 1111111111 00110000101 110101010001 001001 1101 1111011001 1001010001 11010110110 01010100110 1111111111 1001010101 1111010101 11110101110 110010101000 11010111110 00010111010 1101111101 11111 11111 11111111011 10110011111 1110010101 11111011001 1100010101 11011010010 1101011110 11111101010 0010011011 11000101010 10101110101 11010011110 1101101111100 1101011111 1110111101 1001000101 1111110111 0101011101 100101011000 111111110 11110101111 10010111000 1101111111 11111111110 1101111011 0101010111 1111111101 1100110001 10110001010 11110101010 1011111001 11111101 0101010100 101101011010 0111010111 1101000101 1011010101 0101010100 1111010101 0100010101 0101111101 100010111010 1111010101 1100011101 1111110101 10101100010 1111110101 1111010101 1011011111 010101101110 11111101010 10111101010 1101011101 11010 1101011 110 1010101 101000101 01010110000 11111110000 11110111110 11011111010 1111110111 11011100111 11011 100101 1010011010 1111100101 01011011110 1011110101 0011010101 0101111100 1111110101 1011011101 1101100101 0100010111 11100101011 11011100010 1111110100 1011010111 10010101110 1101011100 11110010010 11110011110 1101011011 10010001110 10111111111 10010100110 11111011010 1101110101 1101010110 101010111 1111110111 11000011010 11011110110 110111000110 1111000111 100110010010 11111111010 0111011011 10110111101 11110100101 1111101111 0011110001 1101110110 11111100001 1111011111 01001 1110110 11111111111 11110101010 11110101010 111 1110101 1111111101 11111111110 111110 1011 1101111000 11 1100011101 0101011001 10110100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 9586
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1862
  • Amount of lines: 225
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, one, of, ', you, see, it's, his, great, i, in, it, to, her, as, rain are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'i, the, you, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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