This is an analysis of the poem Archibald Higbie that begins with:
I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you,
I was ashamed of you. I despised you...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXcXXdecdeXfbfgffg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101101011 1101011011 101010100 110101010 10010101 1101111001 0100101100 1100100101 1010110101 10101011 111011111 101110111 010111010 11001010100 11110110110 111011111 1111111010 11010101 0101111010 1001010110 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 826
- Average number of words per stanza: 158
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; i, you, to, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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