This is an analysis of the poem Casey An' Me that begins with:
First I knowed Casey him an' me was young,
An' many a yard we h'isted, an' many a stave we sung...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXX cCXD eXff ceccXX ddff bccCXD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,6,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011111 110011101100111 0100010 10 1010011 101010101010111 11111010110101 001011101010101 0011010101010 01001011011 111111101111111 1011101010111010 101110101010111 1011101010111101 1111010111 01 10 10101111101 11111010101010 111011110110001 111110101010101 001010101010101 1010101101010 1010101110101 001010 10 1110101 001011101010101 0011010101010 01001011011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; an', she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, an', but are repeated.
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