This is an analysis of the poem A Proadway Pageant that begins with:

OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come,
Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd XeebfgX XchfbbibjbhhbabkcXia db lhdb bXdXbb idgf lXekbifmX hembfmiidibikbcXaienamo hhnnhnXbbXejhine ebopX edbf XpkboX goXkb efjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,20,2,4,6,4,9,23,16,5,4,6,5,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101100101 10001111010 1010110100110010 1011010 100 11111010011101 00010010010010010 10 1010110001011001 10 110110101101100 11010010100100101 1010101011001111 10111100111111 101 101010111001011101 1001100010011 1100101101010 1010010 110011011001101 1101111010010 111001001010110011 10101010 10100010101010111 1001010101 10100100110101 10100 1010011010110100 0101 11010100010010100 11100 011010 11010100111101011 01110 1111101101011100 10100101 01110001 0100001 01010001000100101 10011010101010 10001010110101 01010001111001 010101 111001111100100 010 1011000101010110 011 1101010110001010 1110010010101010001 010101 0101100101100100 00101000110111 01010011001000100 10010 11000100100110111 100100101 010001000 0110101010100101 01111110110001 10101 010101101001011 110001 01010100100101010 11101110110 010010100101101 0101101010010100 010100 01001011011001000 11 1011001010001010 010001101110100 101 0010100010101010100 010 11110010010011011 1111 1111101100110 111011110010111 1 11110111010010 11010110110010 110111101 1110001001111001 11011001011001100100 101 1101000101101001001 11010010101010111 10110 1111111110010000 111111100001 11101000101010101 101101 11010101111010 1010011010 010001010101 11100001 1110010111000 101011010010101 1010001010101010 101011 01001001001 0101001001 0110110001010010011 10010011 1100 001000100110 0010000111011001111 1111001110110100 1001000001 11111111100 001010101111010 001001101001001011 11 0010010010011101 0111110 111011101011101 0101100100111 1111010100010111 100
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 423
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 127
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; when, with, of, from, and, them, by, for, i, chant, you, to, so, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, the, i, as, were are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines comes, pageant are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word comes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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