This is an analysis of the poem A Promise To California that begins with:

A PROMISE to California,
Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01001010 10001100111101 100101101110011001 010101001 1111011110110101111 1010101 1111111010101110 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; to, and, i are repeated.

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