This is an analysis of the poem 'Black Bart, Po8' that begins with:
Welcome, good friend; as you have served your term,
And found the joy of crime to be a fiction,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX bcbX aXae fbfb XgXg cdcd cXce hihiXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1001111111 11010100010 1111101111 11010100010 1111011111 11010111010 1101011101 01110101110 10010100110 11110101110 11011101010 11010111010 1100010111 10110101010 0111010111 11011110010 1111011101 11010110010 1101111101 11100010010 111100101010 10111111010 1111110001 11100101010 1101010011 11010101010 01101110001 11111111010 1111010111 01011111100 01010100111 10010111110 1111010101 11001111010 1101110001 11110100110 1101110101 11111101010 1101111101 11010011110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are 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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