This is an analysis of the poem Sketch Of A Political Character that begins with:

There is a race of men, who master life,
Their victory being inversely as their strife;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeff ddeeggffeeXXhhbbccccee ddii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,22,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001011101 110010010111 1101010001 1101111101 0111010101 1110000101 1101010101 11001000101 0111110111 1001110001 1001011101 1101010101 1101010111 1101011111 10010001001 0100001 1111010101 1011010100 1101010011 1111011101 1111001101 1100110101 1101110101 1101010011 0101111100 01110101001 1101010101 1101110111 1001110111 0101010001 1100000101 01001010101 111100011 1011110001 1101000101 1101000101 1111111111 0101010101 11110111010 11100101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, he, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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