This is an analysis of the poem Harry Wilmans that begins with:

I was just turned twenty-one,
And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXXdXedXbfebdcfcacXXgceg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 1101011110010 101010101 1100011010011 10000011010010100 10101001000 111110110111 111 111001010110 1100111101 11100111010 11011110 110111001 11101010 10101 10100101 10100111001 1010101001 11001110110100 11010101101 0100101010011 110101101 001000110101 10001 1110011101 11011010110 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 206
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • 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; and, of are repeated.

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

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