This is an analysis of the poem Jim Brown that begins with:

While I was handling Dom Pedro
I got at the thing that divides the race between men who are...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbbcXXXcXXdaeedXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100110 111011010101111 110100001011000101010 1110101010111 1111111010101 1100101011001 110010111110 111110 10101010 010 1110101001 1011101 1001011 1100111110 00101010110101 00111001010 101100101010 111011001101 1100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 833
  • Average number of words per stanza: 153
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; for, or, of, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.

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