The Impact Of A Dollar Upon The Heart by Stephen Crane: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Impact Of A Dollar Upon The Heart that begins with:

The impact of a dollar upon the heart
Smiles warm red light, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbc bXXdXedXabcXbaeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00100100101 1111 10001100010110 001011011 10100101 001001010 001010 11010010 101111010 0110110 1011010 0010011110 10110101001 11111011 001111 0101101 100100101 1111010 0101101111 1011001 1010101 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • 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; of is repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hats is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hats connects the lines.

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