This is an analysis of the poem Lines On Corner Stone that begins with:
Impromptu lines delivered at the laying of the corner store
of the church on Culloden road, with Masonic honors....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab ccddbbee ccffaagg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010101000101 00111001001010 001010101 10100101 11110111 11000001 11011101 11001101 11010111 110010111 10110111 11010101 10101110 110101110 01010111 11010101 11010101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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