This is an analysis of the poem 'Got-A-Fag' that begins with:
He was tall and tough and stringy, with the shoulders of an axeman,
Broad and loose, with greenhide muscles, and a hand shaped to the reins;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcdX eaea fXgX Xdfd fchX iiXi dcXX aada acaX Xjfj fchc XbXX ecXX dXXXXhcgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110001001100 111010101011001 1110111010001010 001011101010101 1111101010101010 0011100101110001 1110101000111010 111010100010101 1010111010111010 001010101011001 1110101011101010 111011101010111 1010101010111010 100010101110101 1010111010111110 1001111101110101 1111101011100110 101111101011101 1010101010101110 001110101110111 1110101110101010 0110110101011101 1010111010110010 101011101110110 1110111000101010 1010111001001101 0111111010100010 101110101011101 1011101110101010 001010100010101 1110101011101100 101010100101101 1111111001001010 0110101011101 1110101011111010 1010010101010101 1011001011101010 1100101101010001 1110101011100010 101010101011101 1110111010101111 101011001010101 1111101011101110 1010101101010101 0010101010101110 101010101011101 1111101010101010 101010111110101 0010111010001010 101010101010001 1110101010101010 101010101110111 1111101010101010 11010101010111 101011111011100 101110101010110 1010101010011010 011111101000101 101110100110010 1110110000110001 1010101000101010 111011101110101 1010101010101010 011010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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; and, of, with, he, his, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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