This is an analysis of the poem Joey’s Job that begins with:
In days before the trouble Jo was rated as
a slob. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdefgXg hifijbfbchah ikakahghedXe jlfldihigmcm nihidhehioho fpfpcioXghXh indnaifindXX eaXaioodXfb Xghgdidijmlm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,12,12,12,12,12,11,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101011101 01 11010101010001 11110101110 111 01010100100100 1100011111010 1 101000101010 101 11010101110 101 11010101010 101 01010100010 101 1101010101000 1 010101010 10001 100111110111 01 1101010111 1101 110101011001 01 11010101110 111 01110100101 1001 100101001110 101 11011111010 100 11010101010 101 110101110 111001 11110101010 101 1100111010101 01 1101000101 0101 101010101111 101 1101110111 1001 110111100 10101 100111011 10111 101000111010 001 101101010 10101 11110001110 111 1101010011010 1 1101010101000 1 0100110011001 1 1101010011 1100 110101010100 01 01100100010 101 11010101010 111 10100010111 10001 110111001101 01 1101010001000 1 110100111111 101 110111010 1011 11110101110 111 0101010111 0101 1111010111 1111 01100101010101 111100111111 101 01100101100 101 11010101110 101 1101101011 10001 011101010011 111 0111010110 1101 11010101111 101 110001010101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 105
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at, his, he, of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Joey’s Job;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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