This is an analysis of the poem Another Yankee Doodle that begins with:
Yankee Doodle had a mind
To whip the Southern traitors,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbCDXd abebCDfd gheXCDXD abfXCDid ejjjCDgd eiiiCDcD XXbhCDid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010101 0101010 01110101 1101010 1010101 101010 1010101 1101010 1010111 1101010 11110101 0111110 1010101 101010 11110101 0110110 1010101 1101010 11111101 1110110 1010101 101010 01110101 0101010 1010101 1101010 11110101 1110010 1010101 101010 11010101 1101010 1010111 1111110 10011101 0111010 1010101 101010 11011111 0101010 1010101 1101111 11011101 1111111 1010101 101010 11010111 0101010 1010111 1111000 110111001 11010100 1010101 101010 11110101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; doodle, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words yankee, and are repeated.
The author used the same word yankee at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word brandy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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