This is an analysis of the poem Mr. Dana, Of The New York Sun that begins with:
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81
A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbcXddaa eeccffggaa hhXXiibbaa aajjkkddaa Xkiiddccggaa XkbbddccaX ccddkkddaX eelljjkkaX ffkkllbbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,12,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111110000111 011101010111 01110101110111 1110101010101111 11110101100101 11011101011100 11010101010101 11100101111101 11001101111111 011101010111 11110101111101 11110101000111 11110101111111 1011011111101 11011101110111 01000100100101 1101111111101 110111110100101 11111101101011 0111101010111 01111111110111 11110101110101 01110101011101 1111011010101 011101011101110 101100010111010 01111111110101 10101010111101 010001001101001 010101000111 01010101011100 11011101010111 11000101110101 111011101110111 01010111011111 01010101000101 11110101111001 100000100010001 11111101010101 10111101010111 110111000111 010100100011111 01111100110011 11111100110101 01010101010101 100010101010101 01110100011111 111000101110101 11110101011101 01010101110101 1111111110111 110101010111 111101001111 01110101010101 0101111010111 11000101011111 1110010111110101 11101111011101 11110101110101 111010101010111 11000101010111 1011100010101110 11010011110101 111111101110101 111101011110101 111110101010101 11110101010101 111001110110111 10110101110001 11010111011101 11001101010111 1011100010101110 11010100110111 1111110110111 110011111010101 01110101110101 0111000100111101 11111111110111 01110100111101 011011101110101 11110101010101 011100010101110 11110101110100 01111100010101 11110101010101 111010011011101 11011101111101 110010101101 11110101010111 01010101110011 111101101010111 111101001110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 576
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, we, he, his, 'nd, uv, no, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, but are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 'em is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word sun at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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