This is an analysis of the poem Jesse James that begins with:
Jesse James was a lad who killed many a man.
He robbed the Glendale train....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba Xcdc dXdc baXa eafX Xcec Xfdf effX Xcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101101111001 110111 11001111001 101101101 1010101101 110101 11101010111010 11101001 011011101010 1101111 11101011110101 111101001 1010101001 110101101 1001011100111 110111 0110111011101 110111 10101011101001 011111101 0110100110111 10001001 101101101001 11101001 0101111110101 1101110101 011001110101 11101101 101001001101 010000101 11111001001 1110010101 011111010 11101001 111111001001 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, jesse, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, it are repeated.
The author used the same words jesse, it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word grave at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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