This is an analysis of the poem To Orrick Johns that begins with:
The tread-mill roar that ever tramps between
The smirched geometries of this stern place,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddc efcefc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111110101 01001000011 11011100101 1001011101 0111010111 1111010101 1101110001 1101010011 1101110111 1100101101 0101010001 10110010101 0101001111 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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 word the is repeated.
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