This is an analysis of the poem Joliet that begins with:
ON the one hand the steel works.
On the other hand the penitentiary....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabccd bbcXX ddXbXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011 10101010100 10111101 0111101 111101 1111010 1001001 1101 010111 010001 001101 0111011110 111010 11011 1101101 100110 11010 10110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, and, the, or are repeated.
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