This is an analysis of the poem The Illinois Village that begins with:
O you who lose the art of hope,
Whose temples seem to shrine a lie, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacdbd cXaXebdbafgf ccccXcec XchcdhbhddgdieaX Xigiggig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,8,16,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 11010101 11111101 11110011 10010101 11011101 110010111 11110100 11110101 10011111 11011111 01110101 11011111 11010111 11011111 110010111 10011110 10011101 111101001 01011101 11011101 11000101 101101010 10110111 11011101 11011101 01100101 01010101 1110101 11011101 010101010 11111101 01011101 010100010 01010111 111101010 10011111 11110011 10010101 01111101 10010111 01000101 1010111011 10111111 1110101 01011111 11010111 01010111 01011101 01010101 01000101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, the, a are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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