This is an analysis of the poem 'Jim' that begins with:
Have you heard the magniloquent, eloquent Jim?
The yogi of Yarra, whose silvery tongue,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbaa Xcdcaa deXedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010001001 01001011001 010010110101 11001101011 1110001001011 11101001001 101001001001 11001011001 111110011010 11011001001 101001101011 101001011001 01011001011 01101111011 010100110111 11111001111 01111001001 11011011011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word jim at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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