This is an analysis of the poem To A President that begins with:
ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
You have not learn'd of Nature--of the politics of Nature, you have... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011000010010010 11110100010101011 1101101101010100 11111101111111 1110111110110110 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, not, have are repeated.
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