This is an analysis of the poem The Log Jam that begins with:
1 Dere 'a s beeg jam up de reever, w'ere rapide is runnin' fas',
2 An' de log we cut las' winter is takin' it all de room; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXbX cdcd eeeX fXfX XgXg XhXX XhXa XgXg eeee gggg fifi cjcj iXij kikiXgagh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110101100101 1101111100100101 1110010101101111 1110110101110101 1111010101101101 110111111110101 11011111010101101 1110100110100111 111011010101111 11001110100111 1110010101100101 1100111111101101 110101101101101 11011110110111 1111001111110101 11011010101001111 1010101110111111101 111001111111010110 11111111011111101 111011010111011110 1101011011101110 110100101100101 111110011100111 1110110100010101 1011011101110111 11001111011110100 111111001110101101 1110111111011010 1101111011110111 1100111010101010 110011101101100 1110110101100101 111111101111101 10101101111101 111110101101101 110101011011100101 110111011101001 1110110101110111 111010101010111 1111011101111101 1111010101111001 11111011110011111 1110010011101111 1111111101111101 11111100101101 110010010111101 11111011011101111 1111010101001111 1111110101111101 1110111010101 111100110111111001 11110101111101111 11011111101110111 10100111101110101 111011111011100101 111101010111111101 11011010111101 11001110110101 1111010100110101 1110110101101101 111111010010101 11011101011101111 11111001010010101 11011111101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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; de, to, 's, i, me, an', he, dem, you, dey 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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