This is an analysis of the poem Everywhere In America that begins with:

Not somewhere in America, but everywhere to-day,
Where snow-crowned mountains hold their heads,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abacdeddfgf cgXghbcbiicbXb XadaejfjggfgAha
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,14,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100100110101 11110111 011101 010111011100 111 10010101110 101 01111101010 101 110101011101 11 1110010001010 1 111111111 10101 1101111101 1101 11010101110 101 010010101010101 01010101011101 101011101010 101 1111010101 0101 0111010110100 101 10111110101 0101 01010101010 111 1011010111 0101 01110101111 101 0100010101 0101 11100100110101 110111001111 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 434
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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