This is an analysis of the poem A Word To Texas Jack that begins with:
Texas Jack, you are amusin’. By Lord Harry, how I laughed
When I seen yer rig and saddle with its bulwarks fore-and-aft;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdeeddeeff ddgg bbaa XhiiXj ffhX bbkkkkll eejjmmnndc oobbddhhhhXaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,4,6,4,8,10,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111001110111 111111100010111 101010101010111 1110111000110111 111111100011100 111011111011101 1111110101110101 101000101110111 111010101011101 1010010101110001 111010101011101 101110101110101 1011101010101101 101110101011011 111011100010111 1110001010111010 101111101010001 101010101011101 101110101110101 101110101111101 111010101010101 101011100010101 111011101110110 101111011111001 11011011110111 0111010101001 111110101011110 111010101110101 1111111011100011 0111101000101010 111010111010001 101010100011010 101010101010101 11101111110101 1111011010101011 101110111110101 111010101010111 1110001000110001 1010101000111011 001111111101111 111011101011101 10111101010111 111101101111101 11000101010001 10111101111101 11000101110101 1111110010100001 11011001110111 10011100010111 11110101111100 10011101010101 11111101010101 01010100110111 11010100110101 11011100010111 11010101010101 11010101110101 11011101111101 11011100010101 11010100011101 11010101011101 11010111011101 11111111110100 11011101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 486
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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; i, s, yer, to, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words learn, and, when, an are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines yer is repeated).
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