This is an analysis of the poem Butch Weldy that begins with:
After I got religion and steadied down
They gave me a job in the canning works,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabbcXdXeabdXcXXeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101101 1110100101 1100101101 010010101 110110001 01010010 1110010010010 100101001 110111110 01111101 1111101010 111101110 11111101001 1111011010 110101001 0101101000 1010100111 1101101011 1111010111 1101001010110 11011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 805
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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