This is an analysis of the poem A Note Left In Jimmy Leonard's Shack that begins with:
Near the dry river's water-mark we found
Your brother Minnegan,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabba cacaac dadaaa efeffe bgXgXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010111 110100 1101010101 1001110111 1101110001 111111 1101010101 010111 1101011111 1111010111 0111011101 101101 0111110011 010101 1011010001 1111011111 11011111001 111101 1111011111 110101 1001110111 1111110111 1101110001 010111 1011111111 111001 1101010100 1111011111 1001110101 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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