This is an analysis of the poem A Message Of Jeff Davis In Secret Session that begins with:

I sent you a messige, my friens, t'other day,
To tell you I'd nothin' pertickler to say:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddeXXXaacceefgbbfgffggggggaabb ddffddXXhhXghhaaXXggbbXXhhddbbbbggggddffiiXXhhjjXXddaXXgkk hhllbbgghhhhXXbbgXbbddggccffaaaXaX hhhhmmeennggeeddddggXXhhhhbbjXbb XbddXXaXddggnXggbbXXbX ddoohhddXXXXXXgghhXliieeXfiibXXdjjaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,58,34,32,22,36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101011101 01111010001 101111011111 1111010101001 111101111001 101000101011 110111110110 0011010011110 101001101001 01011011001 011110011010 1110010110010 1101111010 101111011100 001001011001 111111001101 110111010011 110111110011 111010001010 111011110010 101101101110 100100011110 110110110110 101010000100010 11111110010 1010110010010 11101011011 101011101101 01010011111 110011011111 001011010001 0111011010011 11001011111 10110101011 1110110110001 11011001101 110110100010 011010110010 111011111001 1100101111 11111010001 101101011011 11010111101 1010010100101 1111110111000 111111011000 11101011011 101101001111 1110010011010 1101100100010 111101001001 110001001101 1011011111111 1001010001111 11100101101100 110100100101100 1011111011111 110011011011 010001001001 001011101111 1110010111110 11111011111 11011011001 111011101101 101011011010 1010010110010 101001000111 101011001101 1111101111111 0100100111 110010111110 0011011111010 11101011011 11111111001 111110010010 1110110110010 011110011100 11011111111010 110110110110 1011011010011 101001101010 11011001011 111111010110 1011111010010 10100111010100 11101100110100 011011001011 1011110001010 01011111101 11111001001 111111011011 110011111000 111111100010 010110010110 101001111011 111011010011 11001111111 111111111011 111010111001 111101101001 1111101001011 11101011101 1010111011110 111011010110 11001101001 11101111011 0111111010110 1011110110110 1101101101100 11100111001100 111011010011 011010111011 1011111010110 1110111110110 111011011001 111011110101 111010111111 111001011111 10100111111 111001001011 01001011011 110111001111 1111011111 011110001011 11011001001 01001011001 0101111001 10100110101 110110110111 001101110010 101001001001 111001101101 1101110011010 1010111111110 11111101101 101010001001 110110010110 111010010010 01011011001 1001100001111 110011111110 110110011010 111001101110 1110010010110 11111011101 0010111010011 101110010101 01101111011 11111111101 111110011101 1010110110100 1101101111000 111010001111 1110101101 11011010101 011011101011 111011110011 1111111001010 111100010010 111111111010 111011101011 10111100001 111110111000 1111100100010 111111001011 11001101001 00111111011 111001001101 111011011111 110010011 010010001011 101001111011 10101101000100 0101100101100 1010011110010 111011110110 11001011101010 11011110100010 10111011011 110111110011 1111001010100 11101101111100 10111110100110 111111111000 11101010011 101011011101 1110011111001 111011011001 11001111101 1111101111 11111011101 111011001001 11101111001 01011111111 110100011000 0010010010110 1110001101111 11011010001 11111011111 1111110011011 11111001001 01111011111 11010001011 110111001101 1010011110010 0011111110010 1111110110010 1010111111010 101101001010 10100001111101 111011111010 1101011111110 111001010110 111010101010 110001101000 1111110110010 111010001110 01011111010 11111001001 01001001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1878
  • Average number of words per stanza: 341
  • Amount of lines: 220
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, an', our, out, to, for, it, wuz, all, ha', with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ez, an', for are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines for, on, it, 'em are repeated).

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