This is an analysis of the poem Henry Tripp that begins with:

The bank broke and I lost my savings.
I was sick of the tiresome game in Spoon River...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcddecfaXddeXXXgbfbagXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111110 1110010010110 1111110101 11110111100 111011110 11011101 110110101 010110100 1011001110 1010101 10101110110 1010110001 01010010110 110110011 1110110 10100101011 0110110001 11101011010 11111110110 0111001001 110110110 11011110 100100101 1101111001 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 984
  • Average number of words per stanza: 186
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, and, i are repeated.

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

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