This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Rudolph Reed that begins with:
Rudolph Reed was oaken.
His wife was oaken too....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cded Xbcb dfcf gggX hbbb diji igig bhhe eidi ehdh djhj gkbk bdedXkckc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101110 011101 10101100101 100111 101110110 1111011 11010101 1110101 10101010 11001 1101010 10111 101011101 110101 110010101 00101 1011110111 1111010 11101110 111011110 01011101 010001 1111111001 111000 10011101 100111 11001001101 10110101 0101100101 110001 101011101 01100100 10111001011 010101 1010010001 101111010111 011011111 01001111 110011101 1101110 0110100101 101001 111111101 1100111 11011101 1101001 1100100101 1010101 1110110001 101001010 1011110111 1111010 1011110111 10111 010101101 10010101 110100111 1100101 01110011 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, hungry, for, it, or, i, and, as, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, nary, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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