This is an analysis of the poem Richard Cory that begins with:
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efefXdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 1101010111 1101000101 110110001 1111110001 1111110111 1111010111 1101110111 1111110101 11000101001 0111111101 0111110001 1111110101 1101011101 1101011101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, when, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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