This is an analysis of the poem The True-Blue American that begins with:
Jeremiah Dickson was a true-blue American,
For he was a little boy who understood America, for he felt that he must ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccdXbbaaaXbdb adaXadbXbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010110100 111010111010100111111 1011010111100101 100100001000011100 1001000101010100100 111111100100110001 100011110110111101010 1010010101010100101 11001010010110100 10011010001000101101 010010101001100101010 010001010001000101001 010010010010010101101010 001 0100101 0010010101 110101010110100 0101010111011010 101010110111 111010101001001010 010110110 101001010011001011011 100010001 11001010100110 010100010100001010001 10101010001010010010 101001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 784
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, to, of, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word knowing is repeated.
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