This is an analysis of the poem The Jolly Bargeman that begins with:
I've put the old mare's tail in plaits &mdash now ain't she lookin' gay,
With ribbons in 'er mane likewise, you'd think it First o' May;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bcdC aaXX aacc eeff XbcdC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011111101 01001111110111 111101001011101 01001010101000 10111011101110 101011101110101 110101011111010 00110101010101 11010101011101 1111111011101 11010111111111 11110100111101 01000101010101 01000101110100 101110101011001 111111110011101 01010101011101 11110010111011 111010111111101 011011101010001 10111011101110 101001111110101 110101011111010 00110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (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; in, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Jolly Bargeman;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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