This is an analysis of the poem Jacob Goodpasture that begins with:

When Fort Sumter fell and the war came
I cried out in bitterness of soul:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXcdcXXdeffXaXceXcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011011 111010001 1010001011100 11101101 00101010101 1110101 0100111 1011100101 00101010 11111001 11001000101 110101101010 0010101 1001010001 00110 10101110 1010101010000 01110 11100101010101010 10101001110 0101001 01010000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 828
  • Average number of words per stanza: 148
  • 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; of is repeated.

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

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