This is an analysis of the poem To Roosevelt that begins with:

It is with the voice of the Bible, or verse of Walt Whitman,
that we should reach you, Hunter!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdbce dXfXXXbagb X XbfaXaXXgX dXdXdXhijdacjifaeehbXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,1,10,23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 000010010110110 1111110 1001101011010 0010100101010 1100101 11010010 0110100111001 111010111110 110111010011 1110111010111 11010110010 111001010000 100100100 101101 111010 1110010 111110 11010 1 001010111 101100110 100101010010 011011010010 1010111110 110101011 1010011011 11001010 1100101010 1001001011 1101001110 0011010000 11100110011010 1000101101 10100111010 1110101010 10101011 10110011 0100110100010 100001001100010 100100100100 001001101001 10101010010100 1001011101 10101110011 111111010010001 01010010010 111001011010 001010110101 10001001110 100110111 11110110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

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

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