This is an analysis of the poem The American Mercury that begins with:
Thwarted your dreams'?
Withheld the fruits of hope?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcdbbedbcedXaaXXaXfaaaaaaXabfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 010101 0101 01 01 01 10101 1111 01 01 1101 0101 1101 01 110111 01 01 1 1010101 1001 011101 1001010 1101 11 0101 100101 011101 11 11 10010100011 11 01010 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 561
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 16 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, to, or are repeated.
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