This is an analysis of the poem Salesmanship, With Half A Dram Of Tears that begins with:
Gripping the lectern, rocking it, searching
the faces for the souls, for signs of heartfelt...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdeebcXacfbXfbXd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010010 01010111011 100111111010 111010101 01110111010 1101011110 10101011101 0101000111 0111110111 0111011101 01010101110 100010101110 00111111100 1101010101 0110011101 00010101110 1110110010 101111000 1110111 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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 is repeated.
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