This is an analysis of the poem The Superseded that begins with:
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As newer comers crowd the fore, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcXc X dcdcXc X Xcccac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,6,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010101 1101 111100111 10101 11111101 1101 1 11101111 1101 110011101 11001 11110101 1101 1 111111000 1101 11011101 11001 11111111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, must are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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