This is an analysis of the poem Henry Ford's Offhand Way that begins with:
Speaking of Henry Ford's purchase of a million dollars' worth of city bonds, Controller Engel said; 'He talked about buying those bonds exactly as I...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbbccdX eeffccgX hhiiccjXXaajjddgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001011000101010101010101110110110101111011001010110 11010111111101 011101001100101 11010111010101 01010111011101 01111101111111 01110111111101 11011101111101 01010101110110 11011111010111 01110111110111 01110101111111 11010101110101 01110111011101 10010111111101 11110101010101 11111101110101 11010101110101 11010111111101 11110101110111 11110101011101 01011101110001 11110111111101 110101110010101 11010101111101 11111101011101 11011101010101 01110101110001 11010101110101 101011101111110 101110101010101 0110010100011111 11011101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 434
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, that, to, and, us, him, he 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 and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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