This is an analysis of the poem On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing The Delaware At The Museum Of Modern Art that begins with:
Now that our hero has come back to us
in his white pants and we know his nose...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbX XcXab XcdXa dXcee fffbf cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011101 001111101 1001011010 11011100010 1100100100 001101010101 01010001001100 111001111 110100100 11010010110 110100010101 010100000001 011111001 0100011111 111111010010 1100110101 1111010000 010011111 111101011 010110010 1101100101 0010110010001 101101101 11010101010 111101101001 110101001011001 10010010000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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