This is an analysis of the poem A Tribute To Henry M. Stanley that begins with:
Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of Dundee,
The great African explorer Henry M Stanley,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX dXdd eeff gghh iXXX dddd ccXi aaee jjbbXaaii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100010001 0110001010110 11101000110001 1101011101001110 1111010110010001 01001011001010100 0101010100101011 010100110111001 110010101010101 110011010110101 1100011010100101 1011010010101001 1010011101001 110111010101 101010101101 111101011111 11001001001110100 10100101010110 1110000100100100 1110010011101 101011000110001 110110010101 11010000111011 1010001001100101 111101110011 110010101001001 110101001100100 0100111011111 11001001011011 11001111110001 11010101011001 101000101010001 0100010110011 101011001111 110111011100 10110110001010110 11110010010001 1011011111 111101111 11110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; to, and, he, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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