Uncle Joe's Hail Columbia by Henry Clay Work: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Uncle Joe's Hail Columbia that begins with:

Uncle Joe comes home a singing,
Hail, Columby!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXAXaXA babA XXXAcacA dXdAeaeA cXXAcacA XXXAcaXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010 1100 100101010 1111 10100010 10101 10110100 1111 10101010 10111 011101010 1111 10111011 1100 11101010 1111 10011010 11111 10101110 1111 10101111 1100 10111011 1111 11101110 10111 10111010 1111 11101010 1100 11111100 1111 11101010 11101 11101110 1111 1110101000 1100 11111010 1111 10101010 10111 10111100 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • 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; de is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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