This is an analysis of the poem Long, Too Long America that begins with:
Long, too long America,
Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 1110100 100111011011011010010 111101010010010100010111001 1100111001111011101 1101111101111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 75 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, now are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines are is repeated).
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