This is an analysis of the poem January Jumps About that begins with:
January jumps about
in the frying pan...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cdedXd Xbabfb aeagbgb hgXgXcXg dfhffiai idXdjhbX cfgfdf ecXcXc cidibdjd eehechch cieiXiai
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,7,8,8,8,6,6,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 00101 1001 0101 100100 10101010 1011 11111011 10011 1011111 10110 110011 00111 111111 10101 010101101 111111 10101 0111 1011 011000010 10011 0110110 110101 11111 1111 11011 10101 0101010 101110 0101010 0010001 101011 10101 11011001 000101 10011 0100111 11011111 01001 01101 110001 100110 010101 101110 110111 11110101 0101010 1011100 110011 001110 10101 1110101 110101 0101011 001010 100010 0101010 111011 0101010 010010 10101 0100011 01111 01010001 010111 101110 10011 0101010 10111 1011101 10111 010010 010101 100110110 11111 111010 01101 110101 001101 100010 1101 1001101 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; march, on, maytime, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase nowhere connects the lines.
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