This is an analysis of the poem Possum that begins with:
Jist 'ere it gripped me, on a sudden, like a red-'ot knife.
I wus diggin' in the garden, talkin' pleasant to me wife,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc XdeXeX ffXfff dXgXXX XXcXfX hXfXff XXXXbb iijjff dXkkdd hhddkk ddXXdX cXllbX XcfXgg bXmmff cXaXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011101010111 111000101010011 101101101110101 11011011111101 11110101011111 1110011110111 111111011100101 01111101101111 11111111010101 01011101110110 111001110010001 10111111010111 1101101110101 011100111111111 11111111010100 11111101011100 111010101011101 11111101111101 11111101101111 10111100111111 11011111110101 101110111011111 11011101110111 11011101111001 11001111111101 111111111000101 11011111111111 010111011111100 11111111110101 11011100010111 11010101111101 10010111110101 11111111010101 1011110110111 10110111111011 11110100111111 1111100111111 1001111111101 01110101010110 111111011110110 11111111111111 11001111100101 101000101111111 01011110110101 11011100110111 111010101110101 11011100110111 111011101110101 111000101110111 111011101110111 111010100110111 11000101111101 1111100111111 11111110111111 11011101111111 10101110101111 11111111110101 11010111110011 1111100111011 01111001110111 11011110110111 01011101110101 01111111110111 01111111011001 11111101111111 01010101111111 111110100011001 101110111111100 111100101111101 111010100111011 11111111111111 11010111111111 11111101111001 111100101110101 110111101110101 11010101110011 11011111111101 010111110110001 111101111111111 11110101111111 11010100110111 11011101111001 11011111110110 11111101010111 11011001111011 111111111110100 10100110111111 1101101011111110 101000101011111 11001011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, an', i, ', couldn't, 'e, yeh, it, 'er, yer, uv, she, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, when, an' are repeated.
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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