This is an analysis of the poem Cooney Potter that begins with:

I inherited forty acres from my Father
And, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughters...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXaXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010010100110 1110111111110 01011010 010101110 100111010 1101000111 10010111111110 1111101 11101011001 101111010 10010100101 111111111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 500
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; my is repeated.

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