This is an analysis of the poem Lucinda Matlock that begins with:
I went to the dances at Chandlerville,
And played snap-out at Winchester. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcabXXXXcdXadaccaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101100 11111110 111110 10100110101 111110 10101101011000 01010100110 10111 111101010 111111011101 1101011101 1010011101 111101001001 110010101001 10001011000110 110111101101 1100101 100110101100 100011101 01001110 101111 011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 877
- Average number of words per stanza: 157
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
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