This is an analysis of the poem Buffalo Bill that begins with:
BOY heart of Johnny Jones-aching to-day?
Aching, and Buffalo Bill in town?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa Xa abcXb cXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011001 101101101 101111011100 1011 1010101 101100101001 01011001101 111011010101 11011111000 010101011001101 1100111010101 1111110111011 1101010111 1101001101011101010110101001000111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; look, on are repeated.
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