This is an analysis of the poem Jim's Whip that begins with:
Yes, there it hangs upon the wall
And never gives a sound,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb acacac dedefe ghghgh hihiXi fcfcec jhjhfh gdgdbd Xgagaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 01110101 010101 10110101 011101 11010001 110101 01110001 111101 11111111 111101 11101111 111101 11011111 111101 10010001 010111 11011111 010101 11111111 1010101 01111111 110111 11011101 1001101 11011101 010101 11010101 1010111 11011101 110101 11111101 110111 11011101 110101 01011101 110111 01110011 110101 11011101 110101 11011111 110101 01110101 111101 11101111 011111 10111101 110111 01011111 110001 11011111 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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