This is an analysis of the poem Oxford Cheese Makers Song that begins with:
When Father Ranney left the States
In Canada to try the fates, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdd aEf ccccgghh aEf iiccccjj afe XXfecajj afefXXckkkX afebkkkXfii afebbcccciiXafe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,8,3,8,3,8,11,11,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01000101 11010100 11100111 1101101 0110001 1110101 0111101 10 11101010 11111011 1111011 1110011 1100010 1101010 1010101 0001001 1111110 11101110 10 11101010 1101011 1011101 011111 1111010 10110110 1100111 0100111 1110101 0110111 10 1010011 1101010 0101001 010111 0011001 11001100 110110111 1011110 01000100 111011 10 11101011 010010010 1111101 01111101 1100100 10011010 110101 110100 011010 1101100 10 1011011 0110010 101111 1001010 101110 100111 1101100 111101 0101100 10101 10 1101011 01001010 11101001 0101111 0110011 1111111 10111111 01001111 11011101 11110101 10 11111011 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their is repeated.
The author used the same word chorus at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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