This is an analysis of the poem The Oleomargarine Man that begins with:
Once-in the county of Marin,
Where milk is sold to purchase gin... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccbbbX aabXddeebbbffeeccbX bbggbbbbddXXXabX hhiieeggaaXbbbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,19,16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010010 11010101 01110101 11110001 011101001 01010001 1110101 01110111 11011101 01011101 10010111 11010101 11010101 01010001 01010111 00110010 11010001 11010001 11010001 11010101 01100101 11011101 01010101 01110101 110111001 11010101 11001101 11010001 01111101 11010111 11010101 01010111 11010101 11111111 01100101 01010101 11010111 01010111 11010100 10111101 01010101 10010101 101101110 01011110 01100101 11010111 11010101 11110101 01110101 01010001 01110101 01000101 11011001 01110111 11010101 11110001 10011101 11110101 11010101 11011101 11010111 11110001 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 538
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; smile, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is 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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