This is an analysis of the poem Jim Jones that begins with:
O, listen for a moment lads, and hear me tell my tale-
how o'er the sea from England's shore I was compelled to sail. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbX ccbb ddeeffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101111111 110010101110101 0101101010110111 101110101010101 11110111010101 101111001111101 1111011111010111 11010101010111 11111101010111 1101010111110010 011101011010101 101011101011101 110101111110101 1110111011101001 11110101111101 111111111110001 11111111000111 11011001110111 11111101010001 11010111110101 11010101010111 110111110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 465
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i'll are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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