This is an analysis of the poem German Joe that begins with:
SKIRTING the swamp and the tangled scrub,
Tramping and turning amidst the trees,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdeed fefecdbbd egeghdiid jhjhhdkkd blblgdXhd gbgbgdeedXkjkjgdeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100110101 101100101 1001011011 100101111 1011001001 101101111 100110111 11001101 101100101 100101101 110110111 100100101 100100101 100100101 10011101 100100111 100110111 111101101 101110101 101110101 110100101 101101111 101101101 11111101 101100101 101111101 111101101 111110101 100111101 111100101 100110101 111100111 111101101 110111111 111100111 110100101 111110101 11110111 100100111 1011001011 100100101 101111011 111101111 110101001 101101101 110100111 100100101 11011101 100100101 110110101 100110111 100111101 110101101 110110101 1011000111 100100101 100110101 101100101 101110101 101100111 110100101 100101111 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 63
- 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; and, you, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word never is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word joe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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