This is an analysis of the poem Tennessee Claflin Shope that begins with:
I was the laughing-stock of the village,
Chiefly of the people of good sense, as they call themselves --...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXcXXdXbdXcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010010 10001000111101 10001111111 01110 10101011 110110100 010010001010 01011011011 10011100110 1101010011 101001000111 01101011010110 011110 111001000100 11110110 01011001 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 667
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of is repeated.
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