This is an analysis of the poem New Farm Tractor that begins with:

The rear axles hold the kick of twenty Missouri jackasses.
It is in the records of the patent office and the ads there is twenty horse power pull...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0110101010010100 000001001010101101011011 0111010101010111010101101 010011010101111 111111101101001001101 110101111010100110101101001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 531
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 88 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 18
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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