This is an analysis of the poem Enoch Dunlap that begins with:
How many times, during the twenty years
I was your leader, friends of Spoon River,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaaddXbcXdXXXXdcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100100 1111010110 01010010110 11010111 0101100101 0101101 1111011 111111101 111110110 10011111 1110011100 111111111 1111011011 01001011010 10101001010 1011101001 01010010 1101011010 0100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 722
- Average number of words per stanza: 134
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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