This is an analysis of the poem Somebody Stole My Rig that begins with:
I'm haulin' twenty tons of freight into New York state
Started thinkin' bout Mary Jane...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcdCcdC ebXeacaCCaC bffbfgXgCaCdCaXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010100111 10101101 1110011111001111101001 111111101001 1111010101 111110101110010 1110111 111110111110111 1110101110010 1110111 11111011011010 11111001 111111101011110 11110101 111101110111 11110101 1010101010111010 1110111 1110111110111 1010101010111010 1110111 10110101010101 01010101 1111101111101 11010101 11101001011 11010111 1110101011011 010101001 1110111110111 10101010111010 1110111 1110101110010 1110111 11111101001010 11101111 111110110111100 110111 1111111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 568
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, oh, rig, my, stole, somebody, and, i, i'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i'll are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rig is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word rig at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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