This is an analysis of the poem Fellow Citizens that begins with:

I drank musty ale at the Illinois Athletic Club with
the millionaire manufacturer of Green River butter ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdXefdgXXhXhicaXjiklllchlffkddXegXkXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011010101010 010110100011010 11 10110101011110 11001001011111 011010010111 11111101001010 01010101100010100 10111001101011 10111001000100 1110 111101101100101 10001010110110 01010011011 001010010011111 1010001101011010 1011101010101 101011111010 01110110 111011001010111 10101010100 10010001001011110 1001010110 10110 11100100100001110 1101101010101100 101011010101110 111010011111 11100100101110 1010101100110 1011101010 11110111101011 111001011110 10011110010011 100 1011001001110011100 11 1101110110100 101001010101 1011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1896
  • Average number of words per stanza: 367
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, them, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).

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  • summary of Fellow Citizens;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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