This is an analysis of the poem Nancy Knapp that begins with:

Well, don't you see this was the way of it:
We bought the farm with what he inherited,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdaXbcefgdgXfecfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010100 11010110100 10101100110100 0101010100 111011010110 01010101011 11010100 1110010110 111101110101 110010010101 1110010110 11111011111001 111001011010 111011111101 0010101000 10100101001 1111000110111 1100101 1110010101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 890
  • Average number of words per stanza: 175
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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