This is an analysis of the poem In Response To A Rumor That The Oldest Whorehouse In Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned that begins with:
I will grieve alone,
As I strolled alone, years ago, down along...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdab effbaee dbcd Xdeg XXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,4,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 11101001101 00101 110010101 1100101 10010 11110 11011101 101001 011001010 10110010 110110010 100010 1111101 11110010 111101110101 1011 10101101010 11011 0101010 011010 111110110110 01011 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 river is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ohio at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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