This is an analysis of the poem Henry C. Calhoun that begins with:
I reached the highest place in Spoon River,
But through what bitterness of spirit!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXdXadXaeXbbeXXXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010110 111100010 0101101010 11100010 110101110 0010101 1010100101 1101110110 0010101001 110100100 011111110 1101111101 01110010010 1100111110 1010011101 111110110 110101011 01001110010 11010100 01110111 1010001110 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 841
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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; and is repeated.
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