This is an analysis of the poem Tom Beatty that begins with:

I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney
Or Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdefdfaedXgafXXcbg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011010 1101110010 111010100 111111100 0110100101 1110111010 11100111 110011101 1011111110 1111110 1100101010 110101110 110111 1111100001 1011010100 110111 101111001 1100111101 010111001 11110101 100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 766
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; you is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.

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