This is an analysis of the poem The American Way that begins with:
1
I am a great American ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcdc Xdededfgebgebdheiejkibhhe XchdXldkmmndedbbdojjoo bappocoqckjcbllcahbepbjlnajkpjlmlaocXrkrkXfabbqnecqos sbfocknbeaancmdoppthdtcatmhceekhkbakmXodieiohcaoaXhrhsXjjllaclcXcplqepXjl doeccoapXKcfcKebcolflcheoobcccblceoocabkeXbffdo fbocakftaXobm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,25,22,53,73,47,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010100 111110010010 1101001010 1110100100100 0100101000010001 1 111000100100 011101 1110010100100 1011011101 111011010100100 1110100101010101 0010010110111 01 111011111011 00100001000111 01 111010111111 1110010000100 1110001111100 01 1110001101111 1 011111011110 10 011110111101 1 1000111110111 11111111100 11101 1 00010111001010 00010110100 10011010110000100 0001011000000101 100001101001 001100100 10110101001 111010010010010010 101101001011010 01000011 11101010001010100100 01001010101010010 010100101010100 001 10100110101001 101001000101000 01001 10101001 10111011111 011001001001 0101 01001101001100 10100010010 1000101101101 1010101101 010000001001 0111010001001110 1011101001001 1111111011010 101011101100 10001101000101 1111001 110001010100 101011010101 1101 101011111111 0100101011001 1110101000101 11010110010100 10100111 00100100001001010 100100001 01000100100101 1111111 01000111010111 0100010111 11001010 010101101 000101111 0101011101 101100111 11101001 1001101010 11101000101 1111111010001001 101001100001001 00100010100100 010011010000 110011 101000110111 00110101111 111010100101001 1111101101011 011110111001010 0101011 1010010010 010101 11011011 1110010011 1111111111 101010001010 11111001010 11010010110 1101010010001 111011011 1111 110111110 11011011100 010010110 011001011 00100000100011 0111101 11010110 1010111 010010111011 0110110001001 01100110111 1010110 0010011001101100 1 101101011011 101111011 101101110001 100110101000 00100100010100 11010001 00100111111 01111011110010 000101001010001 0111011010 1010100 101001010100100 1101010001000100 01001010001000 01010101 11101101011010 010000 110101010110100 110010000 1110011 111101110 11010110 1001 0111100010010 11 01001000101000100 0011001011 1101100111010001 111110100 1010110 0110001011101 110110101 110111000101 010011001101 010110100010110 1 11110010100 001001110101 11111010 0100110101 01000100001 101101001 111110100011 1101110101 0001001010 1 110100010001 101001010010 1101101101 011011 1110101 100010 100 11101111101 110110 100101 11000101 11010110100 100100101 1110010101100 1 01010011010001 0101 01111100001001000 100101100110000111 101011010011 00110101 0101001010110100 110001011 11101100 00110101 110101001010 11111111 0111110101 01010111101 11010101 11101010 11101 001001111110 111011110100 1000100 1111001 1111011001 11 011001000 1010110 10101011110 11011011101011 1011 010111011 101010100 101101001 01011001001 110101101100 101111100110 011001 00011111110101 1000010011 11101010011 10110001010 0101001001011 0111 111111010011110100 01 010010110 1111111001 1010001 1100100100101 01 111101010101 110100 11101110010001 1111001001 1110101001 010000111010011 101010010100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1145
- Average number of words per stanza: 213
- Amount of lines: 241
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i, to, in, their, it, not, alike, they, know, direction, grows, age, say, man, aztec, proof, and, some, of, future, young, same, way are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, they, it, to, was, the, what, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines smart, way, alike, know, man, aztec, young, habits are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dangerous connects the lines.
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