This is an analysis of the poem Joney that begins with:

Had a hare-lip-- Joney had:
Spiled his looks, and Joney knowed it:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbaaBaXBC Xdbbdefef XebbeXbXb Xghhgeiei igiiXXXXa jXjXdakak AbaaBaXBC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 100111010 1010111 1110111 11111010 10101110 1111101 10111010 1001101 1010101 11111110 1110111 1011101 10001010 10101110 1111101 11101110 1110001 1111000 11111101 1011111 10110001 100111101 10101110 1110111 11101110 1110111 01100100 11111010 1011111 1010101 01100110 1011001110 1010101 111011100 1010101 10010111 11101110 1010111 1111101 11100010 11100100 10111110 00111100 1110001 10110111 10101010 1110001 11100111 11111111 10111010 10111101 11101110 1011101 1011101 11110110 0110111 1111001 11111010 10111110 1111101 10111010 1001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; it, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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

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