This is an analysis of the poem St. Louis: A Song Of The City that begins with:
I was in St. Louis when their mystic Prophet came
From his dark, mysterious haunts to gaze upon the throngs....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef bfbf XgXg bcbc cgcg hchc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101110101 00101001010101 1110101111101 1110101110101 101110110111 111110110101 101110110101 1010101110101 1111101011101 1110101010101 11111110101101 1010101010101 1110101010011 1010101110111 1010111110101 1010101111111 11111001111101 1001101111111 10101000101101 1110101010101 1010101110101 1110101010101 1000101010101 1010110110101 1010101010011 1010101010101 1010101011101 1011101110101 1010110010111 010101010111001 11010101110111 111101011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, to, seen, it, and, at, i, love, of, upon, city are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words seen, not, for are repeated.
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