This is an analysis of the poem To The Leaven'D Soil They Trod that begins with:
TO the leaven'd soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last;
(Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor the dead,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaccbXXXdcXdXXXXdXXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00101111011101 110110111101 1101101010101001 1 0010010010011010 110010101 00100110001010100100 1101 00101001001010011 1 0010010101100111 0010001101001010 00111011101001 0010010010001010 11 0011110011101100 1 101011011101 0100101001110100100 0101111010010101 0101111011101001 1011001001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1251
- Average number of words per stanza: 200
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the are repeated.
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