This is an analysis of the poem America, America! that begins with:
I am a poet of the Hudson River and the heights above it,
the lights, the stars, and the bridges...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXac XXdX eecde XXdXe dXabXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001010101010 01011010 111011010010000010 00101100 010100 111000110101 0100010101010 0101101 111101010100010 1110100010100010 1010100010 1101111100101000 111 000100100101001100 00111010110100010000 100 00010010101001 101001 1001111001100 00010110010010 10 10111010101 1110101111111 1010100010100 11111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, city, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines city is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word century at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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