This is an analysis of the poem Pixley Folks that begins with:
SOMETIMES I git to thinkin' o' the days o' youth, an' then
There comes a-troopin' through my mind th' wimmin folk an' men...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcdd eeffggcc XfddhhaX bbiihhjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101011111 11010111110111 11110101110001 01011111011111 0101110110110 01001101111111 1111010101010101 11110100110111 11001111111101 111010100010111 101011101011101 11110101111101 1101011101101101 11110101110011 101010101010101 11011101110101 111010101110111 11100101110101 10101111011100101 111010101010111 01000101011110 11111111011100 1011010101010001 10111111101010100 111110101110101 111010101111101 111110011110111 111010111111111 1111101111101010 1110101010101010 101010101010101 111010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 478
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, an', th', her, to, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, an', when are repeated.
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