This is an analysis of the poem Singing **** that begins with:
YOUR bony head, Jazbo, O dock walloper,
Those grappling hooks, those wheelbarrow handlers,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabXXXaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011100 110011110100 0110101 01110101 1111110 111110011110110 1111011101001011 1110010110011010111 111010010110101111000101 1010110111100010 1101101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 590
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (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; i, to, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, ' are repeated).
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