This is an analysis of the poem A Third Letter From B. Sawin, Esq. that begins with:

I spose you recollect thet I explained my gennle views
In the last billet thet I writ, 'way down frum Veery Cruze,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXXXXcddXXcc eeffgXXdhh ddXidXeeXfXXccXcjjkXll mmaacckXnnXXiiddooXo XaXXaapgXqXgooiimmrr XXXossiXaaooXallddcccccc ccddkXXijjaaoXXcggaaqqXXkkXtXpXX XXpXXcbbggXaddcXXXooXXkkbbppccddkkoX kkooouujjXXllkkccXXcc ddmXtXllcceeoXoollbbrX kkmXpXXdXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,10,22,20,20,24,32,36,21,22,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011101111 00110111111101 11010111100011 01100001010001 110111111100100 1100010101101010 1111010111111100 110111011101110 1011001011101100 010101011111110 01010101110001 11011010101011 11110110101110 101100011100110 0111010011001010 1111011001111010 1110101111111 0101101110101001 1111010111010 11110001110101 11001101110001 111111110110 111101011111000 11011111100010 11010101111111 11110111010001 11111111111101 11001111011111 010101111110010 111001010101010 11100010101010 110101110101100 11110011111111 1110010111101 11110101111111 10111101111011 100110000101000 010111111000100 11111111110001 01110111111101 111101011010100 01011100101010 01111101110001 01110101111111 11100101101101 0111011111011 10111101010101 11010111111011 11110111110011 01111101000101 1111101011101 100010100110011 111010111011110 11110111110111 11011111111111 1101110100010 11110001111101 10110101100101 1100101111101010 11101110100100 1001001011011111 11000111110101 110010100110101 111110111110111 110101011101111 11011011110011 01011101111101 1101101011101 0101111000111010 01010111111010 11111101111110 11111100011010 010101110101010 11001010110001110 111111010001010 111111111100011 1111011011011010 110101011110010 11111111010111 11100101110111 111011111110101 111011001100111 11110101111111 11111001110101 110111110110010 110101111111010 01011011010101 11011111010101 10110101110111 101111010111010 11110101111111 110011100111001 111110111110011 110101110101011 10110101010001 11111101011101 01011101111111 01110111100101 1101011110001 11010101011111 111111011101111 01110101001101 11010100110101 1111010111011101 10010101101111 11011101110101 111101111111111 11010011110111 1111111111111111 11110100110011 11110101110101 10110101011101 11011111110101 11011101110111 110111011101010 110111110100010 111100011111110 110110000101100 111101000111111 01011111001101 11010111110111 01010110010101 1111111111011 111101110110111 11110011101101 01110110011111 1101110111001100 010101101101110 10111111111111 01111100111110111 11110101111101 010011110110101 011001010101010 111111110101110 111101001101010 110101111001111110 110011101111111 01011001110101 011101101111111 11111101010101 11101101111110 110101111011010 1111110101010110 11011001101001000 11010111111111 0100110001110101 111100111111010 111101010101010 111100010100110 110101000101010 1100111111111111 11011011010111 11100111110101 110101011101111 111111011101010 111111101101010 11011101000101 11011011011101 111111000101101 11011100010110 111111111111110 01111111111110 110110111111101 11111111111101 110101111101010 010101011101100 11111111111101 111111001111111 11010101111101 11110111111101 011111011100010 001000110001010 111101001111011 111101010101111 11110100111111111 11010111011111 11111111101101 1111011010001 11110111011101 110101110111001 111100011101101 010101111010111 11110011110111 11010110111101 11001001111111 111001101101001 11011011100111 11110111011001 111111001110111 111100101001111 101101111110110 1101011110101 11111111101111 11011111111001 11110101111111 11010101110111 111101101110111 111101110101000 110111001101010 11011111110010 11110101111101 110010101111111 110100111111101 11011101111111 1101100111001111 11111111111101 1111011111001110 10110101110111 01010101110101 11110111111111 11110110100100 11111101110101 11011101010101 111101011111111 01111111011111 111010110110101 11010101111110 10111001110101 11111111011101 01010101111111 11110111110111 010101011111010 110101001111010 1011001110101 11000111111101 111111001010110 11001101010111 11010100111110110 11111111010110 111101110111110 11100101 1 100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 247
  • Amount of lines: 233
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, o', wuz, an', to, you, he, 'em, ez, fer, it, on, thet, down, my, ', me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, i, he's, he, an' are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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