This is an analysis of the poem Elmer Karr that begins with:
What but the love of God could have softened
And made forgiving the people of Spoon River...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabbXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011110 110100100110 011110101010 110101 1101111001 11010110010 11011001011 11011100010 1101000111 01110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 431
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, in are repeated.
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