This is an analysis of the poem Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio that begins with:
In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbc aXX XbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001111100 1101010110100 111001000110110 10101100101 10010 10110101011 11011110 1011 11 1111000100 100100010 1101000111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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