This is an analysis of the poem The Buckskin Bag Of Gold that begins with:
Last night I met him on the train--
A man with lovely eyes;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdeD adededeD XfbfXdeD XgcgbdXD acXccdXD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 010101 11110101 01101 11110101 111101 101110111 1011101 11111111110001 111101 111110111 1011101 11111111111101 110101 111110111 1011101 01011101 111111 101110100 110111 11011100 111111 001110111 1011101 1111010010 011101 10101001111 110111 11111101 110111 1011101100 1011101 11110101 111111 100111101 010101 01011111 110101 1111101100 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; his, ha are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word gold at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Buckskin Bag Of Gold;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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