This is an analysis of the poem James And The Shoulder Of Mutton that begins with:
YOUNG Jem at noon return'd from school,
As hungry as could be, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX dXdX eXfX XeXX egfg hicX dchc Xede cacX ceXe dibX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 110110 11010101 1101011 11101111 0100111 110111101 1111011 10010101 1111010 11010101 110011 111011100 111111 111101111 111001 10101111 111101 11010011 110111 11010101 110101 01010010 1100111 11011111 110101 11110101 010101 10010111 111101 11010001 110101 01011111 110101 11011101 101111 01010101 011101 11011111 110111 10000111 110111 01010100 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; ', not, you are repeated.
The author used the same words now, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' 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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