This is an analysis of the poem Johnson's Boy that begins with:

The world is turned ag'in' me,
And people says, 'They guess... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcacX dedefafX dededadX dadaXadX XaXagagX caeababX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101101 110111 1101001 111000 1101110 110101 10010010 010101 1111110 1011111 1101010 111111 1100110 110101 1111010 011101 1111010 1011101 1111110 1110101 1101010 010101 11111010 110101 1111110 0110001 1101010 1101001 1111110 1010111 1111010 111101 010010100 1101001 1111010 110101 1111110 0011101 0110010 010101 1011010 11011 111001 110101 1101100 111111 1111010 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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.

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