This is an analysis of the poem The Beautiful American Word, Sure that begins with:
The beautiful American word, Sure,
As I have come into a room, and touch...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba acca adaXdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0100010011 1111000111 0110101101 1001010101 11111111111 1011011110 1111011001 010101010011 10101111 101011010001 1101111101 11111011111 11010011001 01100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, for are repeated.
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