This is an analysis of the poem Old Osawatomie that begins with:
JOHN BROWN'S body under the morning stars.
Six feet of dust under the morning stars....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100101 1101100101 101010010101 100111010010 111001001000 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stars is repeated).
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