This is an analysis of the poem Old Town Types No. 10 - Big Doc Littlejohn that begins with:

Big Doc. Littlejohn, and ugly man and tall,
He wasn't very graceful, no part of him was small;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb bbcccXdd eebbaaff ccbbggbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11101110111 1101010110111 11111111 11010101110101 0111010111 11010101110101 11101110111 00101000111 01000101010011 11101111111001 101111011101 11011111110111 1101110110101 010101110111001 1111010100101 100101010101010 11010100110101 11111001011111001 1101100110011 0110010101 01011101110101 11111111111 001101000111 1000101010111 11111101110001 00110100010101 0111111011001 1011101010101 10111111011111 11000111111101 11110101111 01010111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; big, and, his, no, he, for, years, fee, at are repeated.

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