This is an analysis of the poem Mediums that begins with:
THEY shall arise in the States,
They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXbXXcXddXddXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 1101101101001100 1110101001010 1101000100010 1100110111110110 111011111 110101001010101011 010100110110011 0110 11101010100011001 1000 11111101010100010 1101111010110 00101110101100001 10 1000110001001010 11001010011 101000100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1022
- Average number of words per stanza: 146
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- 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; they, and, their, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gospels is repeated).
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- summary of Mediums;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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