This is an analysis of the poem Frankie And Johnnie that begins with:
Frankie and Johnnie were lovers,
O, my Gawd, how they could love, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbD eaaaD dfgXD heaeD hagaD ciciX jklkX midiX mkgkD ijXjX meXeD jkXkD XifiD eXcfD glnXD gonoX XonoD ekhkd giXiX XaXaX dedeX ehkhX gohoD eeceXXangnd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110010 1111111 110010110 1110101 110111101 1010010 110101 10101010 0110101 110111101 10110110 1000111 10110110 1011101100 110111101 1011010 110101 101010 1100111 110111101 1010011 1101011 1010010 11011101 110111101 10110010 1101001 111010110 11101001 1011111110 10111110 111111 1111011001 0011101 10111110110 1010011 1001101 1111010 1011001 10111110110 10110011 10101011 111010 101101 110111101 10110011 110111 11011110 1111101 111111110 10100011 1101111 01010100 11011011 110111101 10101011 110101 110101010 0101101 110111101 10110100 11010101 10111111 111111 110111101 1011010 110110110 11111010 10111011 110111101 1011010 111101 11101111 01111110 110111101 1011101010 11110101 11110011 111111 1111111110 1110101010 111010101 11110011 110111 110111101 101010010 100101 1110111 110101 111101111 101101010 1110101 11010010 11000111 1111111110 1010010 111101 10011010 011011 1111011110 10011010 0111101 0111010 1101101 11111111110 1010010 11101 110111011 110101 1111111110 0101010 010101 11100011 1010101 110111101 1010010 110101 101010 10101101 10101111110 0101100010 100111 11011010 1010101011 110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 125
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; her, me, forgive, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, i, bring, they, i'll, forgive, for, a are repeated.
The author used the same word frankie at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word wrong at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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