This is an analysis of the poem Seth Compton that begins with:
When I died, the circulating library
Which I built up for Spoon River,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcXXXbdXaedeXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010110 11111110 110100001001 1111010101 100010110 011001100 11011111010 0101010011110100000 11001111000000 0100100010 110111 100010100100010 1110111110 11101100 11110111 1111100 1111010 1111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 751
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; as, of, good are repeated.
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