This is an analysis of the poem Number 3 On The Docket that begins with:

The lawyer, are you?
Well! I ain't got nothin' to say.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccbXdefageXbfhcecigbhajJbchdhafcXajXkghkeebhgcfaXffllfbddjdcmccgehcecnbffXhhhXaXdlfhongflgnncnggfnnefmeXXcXckiokXcdaXXhhbjoicJdgXaeccehXflfnlcdnbhhebknefcegblXkebbdknnbdXfnbdpXldXodcnXccbXfdclccheccghodbpcXXhdgfbabgaojdXbadhdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 228,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011 11111001 10 1101011010 111111 111100 101001110 110111 11110110 00101 0111110 110001111 11111111 101101 101 1110110 11010111101 1001111011 11111100110 111111111010 11011111 1110111111 101101111010 111111111 11 11 1111011 1001010 10100100 111111101 101110 1111111 1111110001010 11111 1101110 011111 1111 1011110 100 1111 1111110 01010 111011110 01110 111011 111010 11011 1101 11110010111 110111110 111101111 1110111101 110100011 11110111 110101 1111101 01110001 11101 110101110 111 1111011 1101110010 101011011 10010111111 11011101 10101 111 11010 111101010 1110110 11110 110111101010 101011111 101101110 1101010 111101001010110 10111101 1111111100 10111 11011110 1111111101 10101000 011011 10111011111 101010110111 1111110000 10011101101 101010 1111011011 1111001 111110111 11101011111 01101101110 1101111010 111101 1111001010 01011101011 10111111101 111111111 111110 100101010 101101 1101011110 1010110101 011111101101 110110110 110010101101001 111101 1111110 11010101010 111011 1111101000100 11010101 11011 01000101 10101010111010001 10101 1110111 1010 0110110 110111 111001111 1011 111 01 01010 1111010 11 1110101 101100101 11010100010 111101 10010111 1110100101 111110100101 11111111 1110100 111111110 1101010111 111010111001 1011101010 110100111010 101111 110101010 111111101111 11011010 11111 01110 010101010011 101101 11111 11100 10111110 110101010111 1110110111111 11111110110010 111 1101101 11101 11110001101 1110111 1111111100 11101110 0110010101 1111111101 0111 111111100010 110 10011110010 1101001011 1110011 011111 10101 11010 0111 11110100101 1110111 1011110100 1101 110010111 0101100 111111 111101 11111010111 01110 110110 1110110 11110 111111 1011000 11101110 111 1111 10011111 11111110110 11011 111001 00100 11101010 110110 1001001 1111 11110111 010111111 1010111111 110101111 101100 11110 110111 1110 111 111101101101 1110111 11111101 11011110101 1110101 1111 11111 11 111011 111101 110 1101 1101 0101 1010010 10110 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7044
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1408
  • Amount of lines: 228
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; nothin', i, me, ha, him, he, it, day, to, we, neddy, i'm, can't, as, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, an', and, we, i'm, fer are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nothin', sir, silence, winters, him, nearer, neddy are repeated).

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