This is an analysis of the poem Casey's Revenge that begins with:

There were saddened hearts in Mudville for a week or even more;
There were muttered oaths and curses- every fan in town was sore....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabX Xcdd eebb ffgg aahX cccc ffii cccX aaii ffbX ggbb ddXb iidd bbhh bbbb ccjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101010101011101 1010111010010111 11111101010101 110111101011111 1011101011101010 11111100010101 11110111010101 101010101010101 11000111111011 11111001110101 1101110111101 1101101101110101 11010111010111 11110111010101 01010101010011 11111100110101 01010101011001 11010101111101 10010101010101 11111101111111 01011111110101 11110101010101 11010101110101 01011101010101 1101010110111 01010111110101 11110001010111 110010101110101 110100111110101 10110101110101 11110101100101 111101011101010 01100111011001 11011111010101 01010100110111 101010101111001 11111111110101 010101010100101 11010101011111 1011100101011101 01010101011111 11011101110101 01010101010101 11010101110101 11010101110101 10111101110101 11111101110111 11011101111101 01011111010101 0101010111001101 11010101110101 110110101110111 110101101011101 11010101110101 010111101010101 01010101010101 01010101010101 01110111111101 11010101110101 11110101110101 11100101111101 11111101110111 11110101110101 11011101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, to, had, his, in, no, somewhere are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, he, and, a are repeated.

    The author used the same words he, 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 ' is repeated).

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