This is an analysis of the poem Henry Phipps that begins with:
I was the Sunday school superintendent,
The dummy president of the wagon works...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccdbeeafggfhghghXfXfdfcffhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011110010 01010100101 1010100 10110110101 11001001 1001010 111101010 11111101 01010100101111 010101111 00100101 11 0101111110101 010111010110 01010101 11001011100101 00110001111010110010 11001 111001111001010 10110111001 11010111001 1000010101000 11001010010 0100110 11110101100101 110110101 010111111 1101101001 01010 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1206
- Average number of words per stanza: 223
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; my, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, the are repeated.
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- summary of Henry Phipps;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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