This is an analysis of the poem An Explanation Of America: A Love Of Death that begins with:
Imagine a child from Virginia or New Hampshire
Alone on the prairie eighty years ago...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefgg hig ejeXkXkfXghkklmlfeXm jbgXeagXfehehXggjeghbegcj gklejdcelXbdXejkXigelaejldgghe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,3,20,25,30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001001011100 01101010001 1111010101 01010110111 1011001001011 0011101110010 00101010101 11110010001 0101011111 01110101010 0101000111 01010001110 10100100111010 1000100100010 110010100101 11010101010 011100100111 11010010111 1100010111 01010011101 001010010101 10001100111 01000111010 0101001111 0101100101 10010100101 110100101010 010100111110 11001110001 010101000010 10001000111 01001100001 01011111110 110110001001 010101101 110010100010 01010110101 101001101110 010101011110 10010101010 10010101 01 01110001010 10010111010 10000110101 011100001010 1000010101 1101111101 1101010100 11110110010 01111010111 0011111010010 0111011111 0001010001 11011111010 101011100101 11010101010 001010101010 111001010101 10010101010 00101000101 010101111010 110100101111 110010101010 0111111101 11011010101 01010111110 1101000111 110011111011 11110010001 001111001001 1101001101010 010111010101 10010010111 001010100101 110100001010 01001010101 11010101110 10111111100 1101001011010 1100000101010 11010100011 110111101101 1101010111 110111001010 111000111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 680
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; of, and, that, in, place, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words imagine, a are repeated.
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