This is an analysis of the poem Knockin' Around that begins with:
Weary old wife, with the bucket and cow,
‘How’s your son Jack? and where is he now?’... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddbb aaddbb bbXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001011 111111011 101111001 1001111001 101111011 1111011001 1001001001 1101101011 1001011011 1001001101 1001011001 1011011001 1011101001 1011011011 1001001001 1011111101 1001101011 10011011001 1001101001 1001001101 1001011001 1011011001 110101111 1011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, in, maybe are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word maybe is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word about at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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