This is an analysis of the poem Tasker Norcross that begins with:
“Whether all towns and all who live in them—
So long as they be somewhere in this world ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXfgc fb fbdba Xchfigjegdgfkh ijh kldidmgiflcjfjbbamifnbopkeacngbgmq XfhcgfjXfcdbqcmeajgm hbjcjegmegfjAckjnccXkcdahpcjbijjpigfhjaghkhalabknjgc kahiXcg fbbbhfcaafljcfrjbagjnbhbkbj apgb jakepfbgjglaibfkjkejgggnjednaglcfbejfgjkjinkcqfegnacgkqcjpjplcjccfk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,2,5,14,3,34,20,52,7,27,4,147,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011111100 1111011001 1101010011 1111011101 1111101111 11111111110 1011011111 00011011010 11111 101101 1101110 100 1101111001 1101011101 01100001111 1100 010111 11010101101 10110101010 1001111101 1111010100 1101011101 1101010101 1100011111 11110101010 11100110011 11001010101 0011000101 1001010101 0101110001110 1011110100 1111011101 11110 100111 0100111111 0111101101 1011010100 1101101101 1111010001 01011111010 11110000100 11001111111 1101111110 1111010110 10111111010 110001100010 11011011110 1101110101 1010010101 10111111111 1111111111 1111011100 11111101010 10110101010 1111011001 0101010101 1011010111 11110111110 010011101010 11011101010 0111111101 01111101110 01111101010 11110101010 01011101010 0111000100 10010101001 0101001000 1101111011 11010001110 0111011101 11011101001 0011011101 0101011111 1101110100 01010111111 1101010101 11111101101 1100111111 0100110101 0101111110 1111110101 11010100100 0111010111 0111011101 01111101010 1101010100 1001011011 0101111111 11111111110 1111111101 1111010111 010001101000 1001101101 1101001101 00010101000 10111101110 1110110001 1111111101 11011100101 0111010101 11000010110 0101010101 11010111010 1101010111 0111011111 10111100110 0011111111 10111110111 1111111101 1101010001 11010101000 1111111111 1111001101 1101010111 1111010111 0111010100 1100110111 0101011100 1011111101 1111110100 1101111100 0101110111 11111111110 1011111111 0101010100 1011010111 10011000010 1110010111 10101001100 0101000101 0110010111 1101111110 11010100111 110111111 1101111100 1000111101 1101010101 111101 1111 1101010100 111111110110 11010110100 1111011111 0101100011 11110101110 10010101010 1011110101 1111010101 1011110111 010101011110 1011010111 0101110101 0111010001 01110111010 0101011101 1111011101 1111010111 01011101000 11110111010 11010101010 0101010101 0101010101 1011110111 0101010001 1111111001 111101001110 1011011111 1111111101 1101010101 0100010111 11001011101 11110101010 1101010001 1100010101 01010101110 11011100110 0101010111 1111110101 0111111001 11010101010 1101011001 01010100011 1101011001 011111011 01010011010 10111001011 0011010101 11001101111 0001000100 1001100111 1110011101 1100010101 011111111 0111111111 1001010101 11110101001 0101010100 1101011001 1010011001 11110100110 11111111010 1111010101 1100010111 11010111110 1101111101 11110100111 1101110101 1101010100 1111111101 0100011111 11111101010 11111100110 11110010001 1110010101 0111111101 00011110101 100101010011 01011111110 10011111010 1110111111 1101111011 0101011101 1111111111 110110100111 0101111001 11110111010 1111010101 1111011101 11000101010 1101011111 11110111110 1101010101 00010110000 1101110111 11010101101 01111111001 01010010101 0111010111 1101010101 1101110101 01010100111 0101000101 111101111001 0101011111 1101011101 11011010111 1110010111 11110101011 1111110101 11111010110 1101111101 11111010101 1111010101 1100110101 111100101001 110011101010 1101010001 1110010100 1111111111 1111110101 1110111111 0110010110 1100010101 1101010001 1111011101 1101011111 0111111001 1001100011 1111000101 010000111100 1111000101 10000100010 0001010111 1111011100 1001100100 1011111101 1101011111 1011111111 01010111101 1111110101 11110111010 1111010101 11010100010 11010110110 1111110101 1111100101 1111011110 01010010100 1101010111 1111011100 1111111111 1111101011 10101111110 11111100101 0001001000111 1111010111 0111010101 0001111101 1111011011 11010101110 01111111110 0110010111 10110100011 1001101110 01010101011 11010000100 10110010111 1111010100 1110010101 10010111010 11011100101 01010111010 1111011001 01011111110 1111110101 0101110101 1111011101 1100111101 0101111111 1101010011 1011010100 11001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1055
- Average number of words per stanza: 205
- Amount of lines: 323
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in, to, of, we, i, for, that, or, it, incorrigible, word, they, have, all, might, you, said, no, if, he, and, see, be, not, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, the, you, of, do, to, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines friend, trees, see are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word walking at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase nothing connects the lines.
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