This is an analysis of the poem In Upper San Francisco that begins with:
I heard that Heaven was bright and fair,
And politicians dwelt not there.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd dX bb aa dd ee ff gX XX dd ff bX gg hh aX gX ff dX ff gg XXXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101111 11010111 11110111 00011101 11001111 11110101 11011101 11011101 11110011 111101000 01010011 01010101 01000101 11010111 11111111 111000101 10010111 01011101 01010111 01010101 11010101 01010100 10011101 11010110 110111010 100101010 10010111 1111111 11010101 11000100 10111111 11010101 11011001 11011101 11000111 100101010 11111111 11110110 11111111 11110001 11111101 010111010 1110101 10101111 11011111 11010111 11011111 110111100 11001101 10010111
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 72
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i, and, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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