This is an analysis of the poem Fishing that begins with:
Wen I git up in de mo'nin' an' de clouds is big an' black,
Dey's a kin' o' wa'nin' shivah goes a-scootin' down my back;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccXX ddXX eedd ccbX XXXX XXbb XXcc ffdXXccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100101010111 101110101010111 111011101110101 111110101110111 111110101111101 111110101110101 101111001011111 101110101011101 111110101111111 101110101010001 1111110101111101 1101011111110101 101111101010101 101010101110111 111111101110111 1011110111011111 1111010101011011 111110111010111 1110111011111101 1110110101111110 110010101011001 101110010011101 101010101010101 101110101111110 111101101111011 111010101110101 101110101111011 1101000011110110 101010101010101 111001111101111111 101111101110101 101110101010001 111010111111101 1010110101110101 1111111011110101 111101111011100 111011101111101 111110101111111 010111101011010101 1111101101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; i, de, you, huh, she, an', my, in, to, 's are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Fishing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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