This is an analysis of the poem Laughter In The Senate that begins with:
In the South lies a lonesome, hungry Land;
He huddles his rags with a cripple's hand;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX aaaX aaab cccb ddde fffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011010101 1100100101 110110101 1101010 11011001 11010101 01111011 0101000 11011101 00010101 01010111 111111 11100111 010101011 11010101 110101 010100101 111010101 0100111001 101111 110100101 110101101 11001101 10101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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