This is an analysis of the poem Steppingstone that begins with:
Home (from Court Square Fountain—
where affluent ghosts still importune ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaXaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 110011100 0101 10101 00011001 0010101 011011 010100 10010 11110010 11000111 11011 1111111 11110100 1110110 11110110 1101110 011110 101010010 01111001 1110010 1010100 111111 110001 111111 01010 111001010 01011111 011111 011 1101 11101 1010011101 1001 101011 0101 101010 100101 1110001 110101 110101111 101 111001 10011010 11110 11101 100101 00100001001 111001101 11110101 0110 1100 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1452
- Average number of words per stanza: 228
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words white, from are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pristine, torn are repeated).
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- summary of Steppingstone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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