This is an analysis of the poem Jimmy Sago, Jackaroo that begins with:

If you want a situation, I'll just tell you the plan
To get on to a station, I am just your very man.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbcX ddcXX eecX ffcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101010111101 01100101111101 1101100110010 001010101010100 111100100111101 101000101011111 10110101110101 111110101010100 10111111010001 11100100111001 01010101010101 101011101010100 101110101010100 101101101011101 11010101101101 110110011101 11010111010100 0100010111110 1001111111101 0111010111101 110101111010100 10101111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, of, his, you are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines jackaroo is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word jackaroo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Jimmy Sago, Jackaroo;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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