This is an analysis of the poem My Corn-Cob Pipe that begins with:
Men may sing of their Havanas, elevating to the stars
The real or fancied virtues of their foreign-made cigars;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeffXeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111011001010001 01110100110101 1110100010100101 1111000100011101 0111010111010001 011101010001001 0111110101010101 0011101000111 101010101010101 111010100010101 111010101011101 111001100010001 001100101011001 101011000110001 111010101011101 1111101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, as, it, 's, and, my, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
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