This is an analysis of the poem Mary Lemaine that begins with:
Jim Duff was a ‘native,’as wild as could be;
A stealer and duffer of cattle was he,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXccccdd eeffcX gghhcX iijjXd ccffcX kkggee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101001110 01011001011 11001111001 10101001001 11001011101 101001011010 101101101111 11101011001 11001011010 01111101101 10011001001 11011011001 11011111001 01001101011 01001011001 0100101001 11101111001 11101101010 11011111101 01111011101 11101011001 11011101011 011111101001 11001011010 11101011011 11111011101 101101101001 10100101001 010001001110 1110100101 11001101001 11101011101 11011011011 01101011001 111101001001 11101111010 01011111001 11101001101 11101011001 101001001001 101001001001 101101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word lemaine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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