This is an analysis of the poem Away Down South In The Land Of Traitors that begins with:

Away down South in the land of traitors,
Rattlesnakes and alligators,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaBXaBCBDEBCBCffBggBcBDEBCBChhBbXBCBDEBCBC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111001010 10111010 101101101101 110111110 10101010 101101101101 11111010 0101 11011101 11110101 0101 11111010 0101 11111010 11110101 11010101 101101101101 11010101 11111101 101101101101 11110010 0101 11011101 11110101 0101 11111010 0101 11111010 11111111 010100111 101101101101 11110100 11011100 101101101101 11111010 0101 11011101 11110101 0101 11111010 0101 11111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1289
  • Average number of words per stanza: 241
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • 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; away, right, come, and are repeated.

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