This is an analysis of the poem Casey's Table D'Hote that begins with:
Oh, them days on Red Hoss Mountain, when the skies wuz fair 'nd blue,
When the money flowed like likker, 'nd the folks wuz brave 'nd true!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAXXbbccdd aaddeeeedd ffeeddaAdd gghXeedddd iiffccdddd ddhXddiidd eebXffaaXdXddaaiiaadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101111101011111 101011101011111 101111101011110 0011101101110001 101111100010101 11111110111101 1101110110101 0110101111101 111010101010011 11101110101011 11011101111101 11011101010101 01011101110001 11000101110111 11110101010111 11010111111111 01011101110011 11110101010101 11011101011111 1101110101011 01011100110101 11010101000001 11010101110101 001010100010101 1111011110001 11010100010101 111011101010111 101011101011111 11000101010101 1101010111011 01111100010101 1010111010101101 11011101010111 1010101000101 0101110010101 11110111101111 01100101010001 01010111111101 11110101010101 1010111011011 111010101010001 101110101110101 010100010101101 01010101010101 11011100011101 11010100011101 11000101010101 11011101110001 110010100010101 0110010101011 01101000100101 011111100110101 1101101011101 11010001100101 100111001010111 01111101110011 11011111010101 101101000010101 11010101000101 1111010101011 01010100010101 101001101010011 11110101110100 011111001101 1100010110001 11000100010101 11011101111111 1111110111111 11010101011101 1101010101011 1111010010111 01110101100101 11110111011101 01111101010111 11111101110111 11110101001101 111111101011101 11010101110101 01010111010011 110101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 578
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; 'nd, wuz, when, it, i, of, on, to, in, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, the, a, and, i'd are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dote at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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