This is an analysis of the poem My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslow that begins with:
1922: the stone porch of my Grandfather’s summer house
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXcdcecfgXggh XXiXjfiifb dgXadiXdgggXiX bkbXXlmXcgnfkdf XlaagfdaccXj XmfcnnoiXdcpgbaa ceandcpicijm XcXhXhddXeedddjd declmcdjaXncXdddaXd ggcdgciXomapdabakdciiiaddf Xicc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,13,10,14,15,12,16,12,16,19,26,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101110101 1 111011101011 1111110 1110110 1000101111110 1011000101 11110110010 111101 101010110 010010 0100110110 001010101 1110101010 110101 111011101 11111101 100100 101110100111 1010101 11010100111001 101111101 0110101 101011011 001011101 11001001101 011110110 1111110 010011 100010110011 0101011 0110010 001110101 100110010 1010011 1111001 1101000 101010000 1011101010101 011110110 1010011 1001011100 1010100 1111110111 1010111000001 01010101 0010100 111111010 10101110 111110111 101011010 10101001 11101111 1 111101 110111 1011110 1010100100 1011000100010 0110 01011101011 0100101010 10011001010 110110 0010010101 1 1001 10111000101 100010001110 11110 110101010 11010110010010 0110101110 1000110 01010101 01110 1111010 11001110 1100101 1110101010 0010100111010 100100 101010 1101010 100101110 10001001001 110110 110110 10101011001 100011010 0101111010 1010101 10010111001 1 1100110110110 111011110100 10011110 011011000100 01001110 111011011010 100010 111100001100100 1100011010 111011 100001011 101011 1111001011 010100010110 1100010 101001010 01010001010 1010111011010 10110010101 1110001 1101001010100100 1100111001010 1101011111011 101010100101 1101010001 11100111110 10100100010 0100110101 0111011 111100100101 11011101 010101111110101 1011101 101111 1101101101 11010110 11110 1110111111010 11110101101 1100010 110111 011110111000 00101010 111011001 111011001101 01111101111 111101 11101011101 101011011 11111101101 01110 0111110 110110 0110111 01001010010010 1110101100 1010110011 11100001001001 110111101 0111 0111011 110 101011100110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 477
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 167
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a, the, his are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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