This is an analysis of the poem July In Washington that begins with:
The stiff spokes of this wheel
touch the sore spots of the earth. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bX cd ee aX fb XX cf XcXfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001 1011001 1001011 101011001001 1011111111 01111001 10101111110100 1000010101010 11100110100 101001001 0010010111111 11100011 11011111011 1011011101 11101010101 11010010010 10110110111 01011011111 1100101000110 1110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is 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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