This is an analysis of the poem John Wasson that begins with:
Oh! the dew-wet grass of the meadow in North Carolina
Through which Rebecca followed me wailing, wailing,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcaaXddXeeffXfXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110011011010 110101011010 1100111110110 10010110110010010 1101101001011 11111010 100110010 11010011 111100101 11000101 110110 1101011 11010 1101101010 100111001 010100101 010101101010 00101101 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 741
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wailing, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wailing is repeated).
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