This is an analysis of the poem Lambert Hutchins that begins with:

I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk:
One, the house I built on the hill,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcXbdXeacabXXXXcXfdeXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110001010100 10111101 0011101101 0100110011 101110101 010101101 1111110010 10101010101 0110111010 00101001101 11010100 01010111011 001010100 10100110011 001010101 1011101010 1010010001 1111110101 110010110010 1110101010 01011111011 0011011001010 1110101010 10111101 1110100101 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1065
  • Average number of words per stanza: 199
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, whispers are repeated.

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

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