This is an analysis of the poem The Horse And Cart Ferry that begins with:

It was old Jerry Brown,
Who’d an office in town,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccbbbbaaaddb eebeebb ffbeebb eebccbb aabaabb aabaabb ggbeebb eebhhbb aabeebb bbiiieeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011101 111001 1110110010 111001 111111 1011010010 011010010 100010010 1010010010 101001 101001 101011 101 111 110110110 101111 101001 1110011010 001101 101101 1010011010 010011010 001001 101111 1011010010 001101 111011 1111011110 1011011110 11011 111001 1001111110 111001 111101 1010011010 1011010010 11011 101011 1011011010 11111 111101 111011010 010011010 111011 111101 1011010010 111101 111001 1011010010 1010011110 11101 001001 1110010010 111101 101001 1011011110 1010111010 01111 111111 111010110 111111 111101 0011011110 0011011010 111001 001011 101011110 111101 001001 110011110 1111011110 100010010 1010010010 110101 011111 101001 001 111 1010010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; ferry, of, and, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, by, in, or are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of The Horse And Cart Ferry;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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