This is an analysis of the poem In Response that begins with:
Breakfast at the Century Club, New York, May, 1879.
SUCH kindness! the scowl of a cynic would soften,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abac dede fafa Xghg Xici jkjX dbdb dkdk dadX cbcb lhlhXchch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010011111 110010010110 01101011001 011110110110 111001011011 1111110010110 110111010101 111111110110 10001011011 111110011110 01101011111 111010011110 11011000111 0101010011110 11011001011 1110110011010 111111011011 1110111010110 01001001001 1110111110010 10010111001011 110010110110 111101001001 11110111100010 110010110100 1110110011010 01101001101 1110011011110 11011101001 110010010110 11001111101 011011110010 01101111001 111010010010 01011101001 110111111010 110110010010 111110010010 0100100111110 110010111010 11011011001 110010010111 01101001111 01011110101 101101001101 111111110010 11011011001 0110110110010 11111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, you, its, 't, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of In Response;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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