This is an analysis of the poem The Old Cabin that begins with:
IN de dead of night I sometimes,
Git to t'inkin' of de pas' ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcdXdXefecgbXaXhXbabaXaXaXXXXXXgXcgfXXhchXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101101 1010001 101110011 0110111 10111010 0111111 10101110 1010011 11110010 1011111 11101010 0010101 11111010 0010101 00101011 1111101 10111010 1111111 11101010 1110101 11101001 1010011 01101111 0110001 11101010 1011001 11101110 0110101 10100010 1010111 10111010 1111101 111011100 1111110 11111111 1110101 11101010 1011111 10111110 1111101 11111110 1110001 11100110 1110111 11111110 1110111 111010010 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1489
- Average number of words per stanza: 293
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, an', to, dey are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, you are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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