This is an analysis of the poem Visiting A Dead Man On A Summer Day that begins with:
In flat America, in Chicago,
Graceland cemetery on the German North Side. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbccdce baXe ccXfg hdbcfib eXeeb eXhgfX cbbfdhJifbcekkXJk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,4,5,7,5,6,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101000011 101010101011 1010010010 10110010 1010001010 010101 0110101 100101111 11101011 101011110 00110011100111 111011 10011011 0111101 1011101101 1010011111 0011010110 1101010111010 10101100101 01001011 0100101010001 1110110100 00100101011001 10111001 1111010100011 1001101010 1101001111 1000110011 10100010 1001101011 1101101101 11010001 01100101010 1001010100 1111 1101 1000011001 00010011 0011 11011010101 010001 101011 0011010100 10111001 1010110100 110110001 1101111 101110010 1010110 101001100101 01010010100 0011010100 0010110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, thirty, and, in are repeated.
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