This is an analysis of the poem In Spadger's Lane that begins with:
Ole Mother Moon 'oo yanks 'er beamin' dile
Acrost the sky when we've grown sick o' day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacc acacXd XeXeXc fXfXgg hchcXd Xfffee cbcbcc fXffii diXicc cXcXXf fcfcff giXiff cdcdXX XdXdcc fgfXbb ghXhXX jfjfaa XcfcXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111101 1001111111 1111111101 1101111101 1101010101 0111111111 0101110111 1111000111 1101110101 0111110111 10101110101 1101010101 1101010111 0101010100 1111010010 0101110101 1111111110 1111110101 1101110111 0111010001 0111001101 11110010101 1101110111 1101110101 0101010111 1111010001 1011011101 1111011101 1001011011 1101011101 1101010101 1111011111 11001010101 1111011101 0101111101 1101110011 1111110101 0111110111 0111010101 1001011111 1011010111 0110010111 1100110101 0101111111 1010111111 1101010111 01110101101 1101011101 1101111101 0101010101 1001111110 1101110011 0111010111 1111110101 1001111111 1111010111 1100011101 0111010100 1111010111 1001110111 1011011101 1001111101 0101111001 1001010111 1101110001 1001110101 1101011101 0111010011 1111010111 0111100111 1101011101 1111010111 1101111111 1111010101 0111010101 1101011101 1111111101 0101010101 0101010111 1111110101 0101110101 1111011101 1101111001 1101011111 1111111111 1101010101 1101110101 11010111000 1001010101 1111110101 1111110101 1111111101 1101110111 1111011111 111111100 1011111111 1111110111 0111011101 1111001101 0101111111 1111111101 1011011001 0111011101 1111011111 1111011101 0101010111 1101011101 1101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', 'er, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, the, sof'nin', one, an', i are repeated.
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