This is an analysis of the poem A Coming Reunion that begins with:
Jim's made good in the world out there, an' Kate has a man that's true,
No better, of course, than she deserves; she's rich, but she's happy, too; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXX ccccaa ccddcc cceecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001111110111 1100111011111101 101001111100101 111111110100101111 100111010111101 1011010110111111 1001111111110100 1110111111101 1101001011111101 10001101111111101 1101001111101111 110010111111100111 110101010110100 1101011111100111 1101111011110111 11010010100111101 1101001111101101 011111101011101 1101001111110101 11111011111101100 11110010111101111 111110111111100101 11101010100110111 0101001011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 425
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, an', proud, to, for, they, old, sit, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words clever, an' are repeated.
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- summary of A Coming Reunion;
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