This is an analysis of the poem After The Surprising Conversions that begins with:
September twenty-second, Sir: today
I answer. In the latter part of May, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbbbccddaaeecccccceeaaXXeeccbbeecceeffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010101 1100010101 1111010001 0011000100 0111010101 0101000101 0111010101 1101010001 1101010101 0101101101 0101011100 01010111101 1111010101 1110010111 0001000101 1111011001 1101011111 1101110111 0101010101 1101110111 1101110001 0101111101 0101010101 1101010111 1100010111 0101110111 1111010101 0110010101 1101110100 11010010101 1011011001 1011110111 0101010111 1101111111 1111011011 1001111001 0101110101 1100010001 0101110101 11010100101 1111111101 1000010111 1111111111 0101010101 10010010111 01111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1978
- Average number of words per stanza: 352
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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; in, of, his, he, we are repeated.
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