This is an analysis of the poem Lines Composed At Mr. M'Larty's, West Missouri, August 3, 1873 that begins with:
McLarty, I can't leave your house,
Your darling daughter, charming spouse,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeXfggff ddXXeeeeff aaddbb gggg hhggXddff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,10,6,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 11010101 01110101 01010111 11010101 11110101 11110111 101110011 11010111 11111111 110111010 10011111 10111101 11111101 01011111 11001111 11111101 11110001 11110111 11010001 111110001 01110101 1100111001 01011101 11010111 11110111 11010111 01110001 01110101 11011101 01110101 01111111 11111101 01111101 01011101 01111101 11011101 01110101 11101010 11010101 11111101 1111001001 11010111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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