This is an analysis of the poem Carl Hamblin that begins with:

The press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked,
And I was tarred and feathered,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdeXbbeXdabaXXXXcfdfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010011010011 1111110 110001010100010011 1010100100101 10101001010 110110100 10110001000 00111101 1110001 011001010100 0101010010101 00111101 0001100101 111101001 010011100101 101100010 10110011 10011101010 11010101001 001011 01101001010 01000101 110101 10101111101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 978
  • Average number of words per stanza: 183
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; her, again, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sword is repeated).

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