This is an analysis of the poem Old Town Types No. 7 that begins with:
Well I remember him - Big Jack Herrington;
Big Jack, the lumper, tanned and honest-eyed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbacc bdeeXff eXbbeaa bXXbdeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111100 1101011101 011101 0101101 1110101111001 1110010101 10101110101 11101101011 101000101 101011 0101011 111101110111 101110010101 1101010101 11011111001 110111101010 1110101 01110101 1110101111 101110010101 11101010111 11100100011 10101110101 111001 110101 10101110111 110111110111 111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; him, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, there, ' are repeated).
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