This is an analysis of the poem Walking John that begins with:
Walkin' John was a big rope-hoss, from over Morongo way;
When you laid your twine on a ragin' steer, old John was there to stay....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb eecc ffeX gghh gggg bbccXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101101110101001 1111110101111101 11111110111100111 10111110110101 1011111011001101 1110001001111001 11101001011101101 1111111011101111 1111011111101101 101001001111100101 0100101111110111 111110110111110101 11110100111111 1100111110100101 1101101011011101 11011111110100111 1110101011100111 1100111111111001 111011111101101 1110111011101101 111110010011100101 0110001001100101 11010010110110101 1101001111111111 1111101011100101 010010010100100101 11001001001110101 11011001011110101 11011110110110101 10100111011110101 1101001011111111 11110010100100101 1111101011101001 1101110101101111 1111001011100111 11001110010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, john, you, and, he, that, on, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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