This is an analysis of the poem The Courtin' that begins with:
God makes sech nights, all white an' still
Fur 'z you can look or listen,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbX dbdX ecec fdfd bXbX gXgc XXbc hihi babX fcfX jXje iaia kckc eXeX gXgc XXXX kXkb eXXX XXbc lhlh dXdX dXdX dXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11111110 11111111 1101110 1111101 1101010 11110101 1111010 010110111 0101110 11111101 0110010 01011101 0101010 1111101 0101010 01010111 1001010 01111101 1101110 01011110 1101010 111111001 10101110 11110101 110110 01010001 1100110 11111101 1111010 11010101 1101010 11001101 11001010 10111111 1011010 11100111 1101110 011101111 1011010 11111101 110010 11111101 1101110 11110101 1011010 11110101 1111100 11111111 11011011 11110111 1001011 110011101 0101010 11010101 1101110 111100101 11101 01110101 111101 11110101 1111110 11010101 1001110 110111110 101100 111111010 0101010 01111111 1110100 10011111 1100010 11011111 1101110 11111101 11011110 11110110 1111010 11111101 1111110 111000101 1011110 11110101 1101010 11110101 1101010 11110101 100100 01110111 1111100 11011101 1101010 10111101 1001110 11110111 0101111
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', all, she, 'em, to, he, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', he'd, says are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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