This is an analysis of the poem The Jedge Of Bowie County that begins with:
HE WAS bo'n way down in Texas, where the sun is allus shinin'.
An' a cloud's so thin it's easy to observe the silver linin'. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaa bbccXX XXXXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101010101010 1011101000101010 1110101110101110 00111010100101100 1111101100101011 1011001011111001 1110101011101111 1110101010111011 1011101010111011 1011101010111011 1010101010101110 1010011011111010 1010001110100010 1010111010101110 1111101011111010 1110101011111010 1011101011101010 1011111000101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', he, of, folk, with, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, folk, things are repeated).
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