This is an analysis of the poem My Little Cabane that begins with:

I'm sittin' to-night on maleetle ca-
bane, more happier dan de king,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcdc XefgXhih Xeeeebdb cXXXigeX ieXeXebe ehghXjXj ecXciXhX XXgkckek eieiXXei Xibiieie hdXXieXe ehfhgiiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010011101 11100101 1101011011 100111 110100101101 11101 11111011011 111101 111111111 1111111 1100111011 10110 1011111110 1100101 111110111 10111101 100100110110 1101 11110011101 10111 111010111111 100101 101101111 1110101 1101111111 11100110 10111101010 100100 111010111011 0110 111100101101 1111011 11111010111 0111 1110110110 1101101 111011011001 1110101 1110110011 11111101 1111011101110 1111 1110111110 100101 11010110111 10111 1111001011 111101 11101101010 101101 11110100111 10110111 10011011111 00101 101011110111 100110 01111110101 10111 101111001111 11101 11111010101 10101 11011110110 101101 110111111110 111 110111101 10100101 11011011110 11001 11111011010 111100 111111011 101011 11110101111 1110111 10111110110 0111 0111101111 1110101 1111010101110 1101 1110111101011 0011 110111011111 1111 1111111111 1111011 1110110101 11011111 11011010111 1101 11110101111 11011011 11101101111 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, de, on, we, dey are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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