This is an analysis of the poem Ed that begins with:
Ed was a man that played for keeps, 'nd when he tuk the notion,
You cudn't stop him any more'n a dam 'ud stop the ocean;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXX XcXXXX bbccaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111111111010 111110100111010 111100011101100 1111111110101010 11111111011110 110111011111110 100111111111111 100101110111011 010101110100110 111101110111100 1000011011101010 01111101111111100 1111101111101010 110110111101110 011101111101010 010100000101110 110001010101010 11010111101111000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to, he, like are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word smokin' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Ed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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