This is an analysis of the poem Aaron Hatfield that begins with:
Better than granite, Spoon River,
Is the memory-picture you keep of me...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdefdfceeXeXcgXgfXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110 00100101101 100101011110 1111110101 10010100101 0101110010 111110110 111000011 11101101010 1011001001 01011000101 11111100 01101011101 011101110 10110101010 110101100110 110010001001 1011001010 1011101 1010101011 1010101001 10101000100101 0110100 1010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 978
- Average number of words per stanza: 173
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word us is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase us connects the lines.
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