This is an analysis of the poem Possum A Lay Of New Chumland that begins with:
SO YER trav’lin’ for yer pleasure while yer writin’ for the press?
An’ yer huntin’ arter “copy”?—well, I’ve heer’d o’ that. I guess... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccc ddeeaaff gghhiijj kkllaaXX mmbbnnaa lloonnXp bbllaaff nXccaacc aXddanog bbaabbpp bbooXfqq llccbbooffXqaacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101110101 111010101111111 111110101011011 101011001011001 111010101010101 111111101111101 111010101110111 011010101011101 001010111010101 111010101110111 11001001110111 101110101111001 001110101010101 10101101111101 111110101010101 111110101110111 11111111010101 101111101110101 101000101110101 111010101110111 111111101111001 101010101010111 111010111010111 1111100100110101 01111101111111 11010101111101 111011111010111 111010100110111 111101010100101 11101110110101 101010101010101 110111001110011 1110010101110100 110111010111010 1110101111101010 111110100010101 101000101110001 111111101010001 101010101010101 111011101010101 101011001001101 11010101110101 011010011011101 11010111111101 0101111110101 1100101010111001 0101111111101 111010101111101 11100100010111 11110101110001 111011111111101 1111101011100101 11010101111101 11111101010101 111011100010001 1101100110101 100100111010001 111110101110101 111010101110100 11110111110101 11011001010111 111110111110101 111010111110101 01010101010111 11111111110101 10111010101101 1110101011100110 11011101111101 111100101110111 110011101111111 101111101010111 110111101111011 10111110010001 11111111110101 101010101011101 101010111111111 11111111110101 111110100011001 111010101011101 111011101010111 111010101101111 111110100010101 10111001010101 01110100110111 10111101110101 11111100011100 111010101110111 11001100110001 10101110010001 111110101110101 111010101110101 111110101110101 101110111110101 101011101010101 11110111010101 11000100010101 01010110110101 111111101011101 111110110010111 111110111010101 1010110101011101 111110101010001 101111101010011 111011101110101 111011101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 534
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; yer, i, it, he, boss, as, ov, that, ter, n, worrit, to, we, im, s, how, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an, how are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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