This is an analysis of the poem James Garber that begins with:

Do you remember, passer-by, the path
I wore across the lot where now stands the opera house,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabcdcXbXcbXcaXadXeXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101011110101 10011011100 101001 111110011101 1110101 110110111 01110011 110101010 1011100110 11001001110 01110101100010 110111110110 11011100111 0100101111001 0101111111 0101111100 101110010101 1011110111 1101110101 1101110 11010001 0100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 957
  • Average number of words per stanza: 168
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines soul is repeated).

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