This is an analysis of the poem Little Joe, the Wrangler that begins with:
Little Joe, the wrangler, will never wrangle more;
His days with the 'remuda'—they are done.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdca dece fdXd XdbX gcXc bcXb Xcdc cccc bdfdXgdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010100010101 0100100111 110101110110111 0101011101 11110010111001 10101110111 001011101010101 1100111101 010110101110001 1111111101 101100101110101 10010010111 11110101010101 101111100111 111011111110101 11111010101 1111101110110111 11011110101 101111101110111 11101010111 111010101010101 0101111011 01001101011101 1101000101 11001101010101 10111011001 1010010101110111 10111010101 1010100111001 1101011001 101010101011111 1101010101 101010111011101 111010100001 111011100010101 1001010011 11110101101001 10101100101 11001101111101 111010111001 1101110111101 1001110101 01011001011101 111010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, he, him, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word joe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Little Joe, the Wrangler;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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