This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of Old Joe Swallow that begins with:
When I was up the country in the rough and early days,
I used to work along ov Jimmy Nowlett's bullick-drays; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabb BBXXB ccddee eeffbb ggggbb hhiibb ccjjbb eedXbb ggddbb BBXXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100011101 11010111010101 1010101011011111 1110010100011001 101010101110111 101110100010101 1011010110101 11011101010101 0010101010 10101010 11101 11110101010101 111010101010111 11110101010101 11111101110111 111110101100111 110010101010111 11110101011101 101011101010101 1011111011100101 111011101010101 111010101110111 101011010111101 101110101011111 11110101010101 101111101011101 101010101010111 101010111010111 101010100011101 1010111010010101 101010101010101 1010110101011101 11111001011111001 1111111011111001 111110111011101 101011101010101 101110101010101 111010101010101 111011101010101 1110110011101001 1001011100011101 110010100010101 10111101110101 111011100011101 111111101111111 111110101110011 001010101011101 101010101110101 101111100011101 101010100010111 10110101110101 111100110110101 11110100011101 1011010110101 11011101010101 0010101010 10101010 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', in, spite, of, we, useter, still, i, if, he, up are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', still are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ago at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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