This is an analysis of the poem The Choice (The American Spirit Speaks) that begins with:
To the Judge of Right and Wrong
With Whom fulfillment lies... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac cdcd ebeb fdfd cgcg hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010111 010101 110111001 111101 110101 1101110 110100101 0011010 110101 101111 110100111 0011100 110010101 1101011 01010101 0100101 0010101 111100 110111111 110101 110111 111111 111110111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, but are repeated.
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