This is an analysis of the poem E.C. Culbertson that begins with:
Is it true, Spoon River,
That in the hall-way of the New Court House...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbbXaXXcdXeadcXecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001110 1001100111 1001001 01000110 0100101101 10011101010 00101011 11111011010 101010101110 010101110001010 1000100111001 00000100111 0111101 100010010010 110100101001010 1010111 100010010001 111101001 1011011 1010101 10100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 804
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; to, it are repeated.
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