This is an analysis of the poem Knucks that begins with:
In Abraham Lincoln's city,
Where they remember his lawyer's shingle,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbCCdbbXeX XdfgaaX Xdcfcd cf eXgdXXCCbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,6,2,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011010 1101001010 011111 10101 10010100 010100011 011101001 110101101 01011010111 0010010101011 1101 1101111 101100101010 11001011101 1101010011 111010011000 110100 1101101010 11110000101 110110001010 11101010111 101001110100101 10111010110 101011010010 1001001110110 1111110100101 110101 1110101 110101 1100110101 11010100 10101 10010100 0001111 001011011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wrapped, in, and, this are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Knucks;
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