This is an analysis of the poem Verses For After-Dinner that begins with:
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, 1844
I WAS thinking last night, as I sat in the cars,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabb ccdd eeff eegg hhaa eeii hcjj kkll ggdd mmee eeXX maXX aaaa eeeeXeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101001001 111011111001 001001001011 11101111000 011001011011 1010111101010 0010010010010 11011111011 111011111011 11001101101 11011011001 11011011011 110001101001 11001101001 001001101001 111111011011 111111110101 11011111001 11111101001 11011001001 110110001101 11111001111 11101001001 01001011011 001101001001 11011011001 0010110010010 11001011001 001111001001 111110011001 0111010001101 11111011001 01111101111 01101001111 11111101011 11101001001 11101111111 01011001001 111100101101 11011011001 001101011101 11101011101 11111101001 11011011111 11001001001 11111011001 11001001011 11101111111 1111110111110 101101001001 101011101001 101001001111 11001001001 11001011101 111101111001 111101011011 111111001001 11101011001 001011001001 111111001001 01011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, you, his are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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