This is an analysis of the poem Ring, Ring de Banjo! that begins with:
De time is nebber dreary
If de darkey nebber groans;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcXbdbdceceXdXdXafafXgXgFXdfdfdcdcFXhfhfafafF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 0010101 0101010 1010101 1101010 1010101 1101010 1010111 1 1101010 11100001 0101110 1111101 0101010 010111 11101110 1111111 11011 111011 101111 111011 1 111110 110111 1101010 011111 1111110 110101 1111010 110111 110111 1 100010 1010101 1101110 110111 101110 111101 101010 110101 110111 1 1111011 1010101 11101101 111111 1101110 1111001 1101110 0110111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1255
- Average number of words per stanza: 253
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, nebber, my, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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