This is an analysis of the poem Plaint Of The Missouri 'Coon In The Berlin Zoological Gardens that begins with:
Friend, by the way you hump yourself you're from the States, I know,
And born in old Mizzourah, where the 'coons in plenty grow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeddffgg cXbbaaXX ggeeddgg gXccbbggXffbbffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011110100111 11011001010101 111010011110101 1110111101101 11110101110101 110101010011111 110101001110101 11010101011101 11000101111001 01011100010101 1100010110101 001011101010101 01010111100101 111101011100101 11010101110101 1110010101010111 11010101010111 01010101001101 10110101010111 110111010011101 11011111111001 110111010011101 111011101010111 101010111010111 11110101111111 11011010110101 01011111110101 11010101101111 011010110101 01110101110101 11011111010101 11110111111111 11110101111101 11011101111101 10101111110101 01000100110111 11111101111111 11110100110111 11010101011101 101110100110111 11110010010101 01011101110111 11000101010101 1101110111101 10011001111111 0110100110101 110001011101001 110101001110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (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; and, to, of, for, i are repeated.
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