This is an analysis of the poem Shack Dye that begins with:

The white men played all sorts of jokes on me.
They took big fish off my hook...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcdebdXXXXbcXdXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111110111 1111111 11101111101 1001011101 11011001111 111010101 110110010110 000111101 1110011110 11111001010 111001 111101111 1111111110 01011001 101011010 10010010 110101111 11011101101 1110110110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 742
  • Average number of words per stanza: 147
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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 is repeated.

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