This is an analysis of the poem Clarence Fawcett that begins with:

The sudden death of Eugene Carman
Put me in line to be promoted to fifty dollars a month,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbXcXdXbXXdaXXdcdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010100110 1101000100101001 1111111011 101011111 110101010 0101111101 11001010111101 110111011 110110111001 010111101 11101010010 11101001 1111010011 110010010100 111101 0111111010 11001101001 111110101 1111111101 1111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 777
  • Average number of words per stanza: 157
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • 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; and, i, how are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Clarence Fawcett;
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