This is an analysis of the poem Slickens that begins with:
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
HAYSEED _a Granger_... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcba d e e fgX X fgfhXic J kkkl X k X k e kl X kifmfhXc J mXc e m X m X mmc e gghnfjhX J bbbcbbc X Xcdhh J kkg X k e k X g e nhhehn X efc X d X n X bkcfXcbXhahfXbnobbadf e ii X gege X gg X ffaahXbbpp j cfcfXbddkkk k lfhhnXicok X p e fn X ifk X hfnegX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,1,1,3,1,7,1,4,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,8,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,3,1,8,1,7,1,5,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,6,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,21,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,10,1,11,1,10,1,1,1,2,1,3,1,6,1,4,1,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010 10010 10010 100010 10010 100010 1101 1010010 10 11111101 01010011001 0101111101 100 1101110111 0101010101 0101010101 010010101 1101010101 1011100101 0111010101 110 10100010 0100010 0100010 110101 100 0100010 10 0100010 10 0100010 111101 10 1101110101 0100010111 11010111010 1101001101 1101110101 0101110000 1110010101 0101110100 110 1101 0101 1011010 10 0111 100 0111 10 0111 0111 0011010 10 1111010001 1111001111 1101010101 1101010111 1111011101 0100011101 11010010010 1101100010 110 110010 11010 110010 0111 11010 01010 1101 100 110100100010 1101011110 01010001100 1101111101 0111010011 110 11001 101001 1010111 10 01011 10 001001 100 10001001 10 1111010101 0110001111 101101101 1111001001 0100110101 1101110111 1010 0111011101 0101110011 1001 10 110 100 101 10 00100010 10110110 11101010 10101010 10001011 10001010 10101100 10101010 101010110 11100110 11111110 11101010 10101010 10101010 11101011 10111010 11101010 00111010 10011010 10100010 10111110 10 1011010101 11001110111 100 0101010001 110101 0011000101 110101 10 01011101111 01111100011 10 11110111110 11011111010 11010100010 11010100010 11010101010 01110111010 11010111010 01110001010 1101110101 1101110111 110 1010010010 1100101 110011010 11101001 101100111000 110110111100 110101101111 110100100111 101110100101 110101101101 1010 10 1111011101 101100001 0100010011 0101000101 0101010101 11011100111 0101110111 0100100111 1001010111 110001 10 0111 10 1111110001 0100010111 100 1101011011 1101011101 0001010 10 101 0101110111 1111011101 0101111101 0101010101 110111 10 1111 1111011101 1101010001 1001110101 101001010 1111011111 0100 10 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 76
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 75
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 195
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and, all, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, it, and, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines assessment, him, out, junket are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words nozzle, junket at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase junket connects the lines.
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- summary of Slickens;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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