This is an analysis of the poem To A Contemporary Bunkshooter that begins with:
You come along. . . tearing your shirt. . . yelling about
Jesus....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefghX aXia ajbakfag dlmj lifgmgdX lmaab XbkhamfaXnba amoelaobanXhjkflbXf mbnmX kc XflllX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,8,4,8,5,12,19,5,2,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111001 10 111111 11110110 101010101111001 1011010101100100 10101010100101 1101101101101 11111101110 101 1101101111011 1101111110110 1011111011 1001111111010 111011111111 1101001111101 111110110 11011110110101 1110011101011 10101101110 10010110011101 0010 1101110110100 0100100100111 10110111111 111011011 010100111010 01111011100 0010010101001 0101101 1101001101110010 10010110110 01110110001011 10110101 11110011001001 01001101101110 100110110001 10110010111111 111110110 101111011101 0110101001100010 1101011111 1010010101110 10111110111101 1101001101111 1110101101010 1101111111101 01000101111001 110010110110 10101010100010 1010111111 11101001010010010 111001100100 0110111011 100 1110101011111 010110111101 101111011000 1111101110101 11011 1111011110110 111110001001001 1011111111110 101100111 0101101011011 1011010100010 1100010011101 10001101010110 10111110100 011 11101010010001010 111101001011101 0100111010010100 01010010100100 1010 11101111111 10101011 1000100010011100 111111100100 1011110011 011101111001 11010010101 0010100100100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; you, of, and, all, know, good, jesus are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, i, except are repeated.
The author used the same words you, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase jesus connects the lines.
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