This is an analysis of the poem Johnny Boer that begins with:
Men fight all shapes and sizes as the racing horses run,
And no man knows his courage till he stands before a gun. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccaaddaaccbbaa eeffddffaa ggbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111101010101 11110101110101 11110101110101 11010100010101 11010101010101 11010101110101 11000101111101 11110101110111 11010101110101 1110010010101 11011101010101 11010100010101 11010100110001 100101100110111 01110101110001 111101100110101 11111101110101 11110101010101 01011111110101 11011100010101 11011101110101 110111001110101 01011111110101 110100111110101 11110101110111 1111101110011001 11010101011001 11010001010101 11010101110101 11010101010101 11010101110101 11010101011101 01001101010111 11100101010101 11011101110101 110101010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 729
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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, but, he, his, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word gun at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Johnny Boer;
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