This is an analysis of the poem The Golf Ball And The Loan that begins with:

[After Longfellow.]
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabb ccdd Xcee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 110110001 01011111 11100101 11100001 11110011 11011111 11010101 01010111 11100001 11011111 101101101 11011111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; it is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Golf Ball And The Loan;
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