This is an analysis of the poem Richard Bone that begins with:
When I first came to Spoon River
I did not know whether what they told me ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcXXcdXbXXeeadc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 1011101111 1111 11111101 110101111 1111110111000 11010100110010100 11101011011 10100001 110111010101 1111001 00101101010111 11110110111010 111110001100 001 10100100111 011001 10110100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 760
- Average number of words per stanza: 134
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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