This is an analysis of the poem Past Carin' that begins with:

Now up and down the siding brown
The great black crows are flyin', ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXcXCXXXCX dadadXdXXXdX eXeXcXBXXXBX dXdXdXdXXXbX fXfXfXfXXXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 011111 11010111 010101 01110001 0111010 10111111 1111110 110110 1101110 10111111 1111110 11110101 1101010 111101011 11001010 11110111 1100110 11010111 1100110 1100110 1101110 11011101 1100110 11110111 010101 11010101 111111 01110111 0101100 11111101 1110110 1100110 110110 11111101 1110110 11011101 1101010 11111111 1111110 11000111 1111110 11011111 1100110 1100110 1101110 01110101 1100110 11111101 1111110 11010111 0111010 11110101 1111010 11110100 0111010 110110 1101100 11110100 0111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; past, carin', and, through are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, past, through are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines carin' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word carin' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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