This is an analysis of the poem Lilly-Willy-Woken that begins with:
Bill Vining had a sorrel colt
Some two years old or more,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbXacXc CcbC deceacec CcXC dbfbacec CcbC dgbgfcfc CcXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,4,8,4,8,4,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110111 1011110101 1010101 1111 1101 1101010 11110100 10111010 1110 1100010 1011110101 1101010 1101010 110101 11101001 110011 11110101 1101010 010100101 1101110 1110 1101010 1011101010 1101010 1101010 110101 111111001 1010111 11111111 1101010 11010101 1101110 1110 1101010 1011110101 1101010 1101010 110101 11011101 010101 11110101 0101010 10011101 1101110 1110 1101010 1111100101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; broken, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines broken is repeated).
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