This is an analysis of the poem Harmon Whitney that begins with:
Out of the lights and roar of cities,
Drifting down like a spark in Spoon River,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcaXbaXdabeffXeeedbbcXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111010 1011010110 11001001110 01000010110101 101010111 0011110100101 11001110 1100100101 01001001001011 11101110010 10010101001 10010100 110010010101 111010101101 00111 01011001 001100 111011101 001110100111 010001101001 110111110010 100100111011 110011111101 11000101010 1110110101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1112
- Average number of words per stanza: 219
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of Harmon Whitney;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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