This is an analysis of the poem The Glory Trumpeter that begins with:

Old Eddie's face, wrinkled with river lights,
Looked like a Mississippi man's. The eyes, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacabdXad edeXXcbcdXf fcbcgbbbg XXhXijhiXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,9,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111100101 1101010101 0101010011 10011101 1101110101 0101010101 00110111 11011111010 0011000100 0101110101 1101100101 1101010101 1100111101 0111000101 11110101010 1101010011 1110110011 0101000100111 0111011101 100110110010 0101010011 1101110111 0101110111 0101111101 00110010101 1001011001 1101011101 0101011101 1101110101 0101001101 1011110101 11111101010 1111111101 0111110001 10110011010 0101010101 0101000101 11111111010 1111000100 1101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 421
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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 are repeated.

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

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