This is an analysis of the poem Used-Up Joe that begins with:
I'm de only one left ob de Colony niggers;
How things do meander away!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXBXbbb XbcB dBXBdbdB cBXBabaB eBXBfbfB XBXBXbab eBeBXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010111010010 11101001 111111111010 11001001 11110101000010 0111001 111001011111 111101001 101001111001 111011101 101001101111 11001001 1111010111010 11101001 0111011110110 11001001 0011110110110 11101101 0110111111010 11001001 0010111010110 11101001 10111110101100 11001001 1111011010110 01001111 1110011111010 11001001 1111111011110 11101001 10110111100100 11001001 1011010110110 11111101 1100111011110 11001001 1010011110100 11101001 111001111010 11001001 1111110111010 11011011 1111011111010 11001001 1000110110110 11101001 1110011011010 11001001 1010111111110 01101001 1011011011100 11101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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