This is an analysis of the poem Ode For Mrs. William Settle that begins with:
In Lake Forest, a suburb of Chicago,
a woman sits at her desk to write...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdeabXfgchfeihjhdcihhfihXkfdhXedlhbXcjhddlmdbncopmpiokhhhhhhdbockbhnge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 73,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01100100011 010110101 1010110101 011001110 100100111 010011101 10111011 010101101 11100011 0101101001 1110101000 10001101 1010110011 10110110010 0010011111 0101001000 1110000111 1001010010 110110110 0010010111 11101011 101111000 010101110 1111111 110101010 01111111 010111101 0101101000100 110000001001 11001111 1000100011 111100110 0110010101 1001100101 0011010110 111101110 10110011 1101000101 1001010010 10011011 1011011100 111001010 0110111011 11101011 0110011100 1010001001 01111111 1010100110 11011111 01010111001 01110101 0111010 1100010001 1110100101 100101101 111111 01001101 1010100010 100100101 000100101 01010010 10101101 10100111 11111111 00110111 01110101010 1001011110 11101111 111011101 110011100 1011001101 01011110 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2660
- Average number of words per stanza: 493
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, to, and are repeated.
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