This is an analysis of the poem Old Bob Blair that begins with:
I got so down to it last night,
With longin' for what could not be,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dbdbaa bebXaa fafagg hhhhii aeaXjj bdbdcc edkdhh gkgklb hmhmdX XXXXjj hnhnff oXoXhh kkkkjX khkhlb hfhfhh aaaajj jmjmcX hdhdaX papaaa dedhX heheqq dddXcXXmjmjgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,5,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110011 01011110 11000111 11011101 11110101 11110111 10110101 01110111 01110101 11010111 01010111 11111111 11010101 11111100 0100101 110101110 11011101 11110110 11110111 11110111 01100111 11111101 10111001 11010101 01111101 11010111 11011111 11100101 01110111 11110111 11110011 01010110 111010101 11011101 11111111 11010111 11010111 11110101 11010101 11011111 01111101 11110011 11010101 11010001 01001101 11100111 11111101 01101101 11011111 11011101 10011111 01101101 00111100 11110111 11111111 11110101 01011111 11011001 11111101 10111111 11010101 11110111 11011111 11011110 11111111 11010101 11110101 11011101 101101011 01010101 11011001 10010001 11100101 011101100 11111110 11110111 10110101 110111011 11110101 11010001 01011111 11011111 11111011 01011101 11110101 111111101 101011101 01110111 10111100 11111001 11110101 10010101 11000101 11110101 11011101 01010101 11011111 11001101 11111111 11110101 10111101 10110101 1100001111 10111101 11110111 11011111 10110101 1010001 11011101 11000111 11111101 11111101 110011 11001101 10110101 11011111 01010101 11011101 11010101 11111001 11011001 11111111 01110011 11110011 11111001 11110101 11110111 11101111 01010111 11010111 11110111 1101111 11011101 11011101 1111111 11011111 11011111 11011111 11110101 10110101 10100111 11110111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 144
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, he, ', with, to, an', his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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- summary of Old Bob Blair;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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