This is an analysis of the poem On The Building Of Springfield that begins with:
Let not our town be large, remembering
That little Athens was the Muses' home, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dEce XfcX fcbc fghg hbib ebfb hefe eiji Xdad djcj Xehg dEXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010100 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101011011 0100110001 1101100101 1101010101 1111011001 00010011101 1100101010010 11011100100 1101010011 0100110101 1001110101 101100101 110010001011 1101010100 1111110101 1011001100 1111110001 1101010111 1101010100 1101011101 1101110101 1111010101 1011110111 0101100101 1011001111 1101010101 0100110001 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1111011111 1001010001 0100010111 0101001101 0101010101 1111011111 1101010101 10110001100 1011110111 0111011101 1011110110 0101011111 1011010101 0111011100 1111010101 0100110001 1111111111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; that, and, let, of, their, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, let, songs, the are repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase born connects the lines.
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