This is an analysis of the poem Brer Rabbit You's De Cutes' Of 'Em All that begins with:
Once der was a meetin' in de wilderness,
All de critters of creation dey was dar;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbcb XDeAXX ccbcXfXf XDeAXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101000100 10100010111 1101101111 11010100101 01010101100101 110111001 11010100110101 1001010101 1111010 111101 1100110101 1101010 1111010 1101010001 110101010100 10101111101 110111011111 1101010101 11011101110101 1101111101 1111111110111 1101110111 1111010 111101 1100110101 1101010 1111010 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; brer, mighty, de, dey, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word brer is repeated.
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