This is an analysis of the poem Little Jack Janitor that begins with:

And there, in that ripe Summer-night, once more
A wintry coolness through the open door... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaXcc dddXcccc XXcceecceefXgghhX ggXhiX jeeccgXkkl cccciX Xaah hX cciX aaX ggX mmeehhc iillffaXnnffX ggaaffX XbX X ahX ggX g ffgXeeX aab XceeXX XjX eeccgX geeeX mmXfggeXaaiibbX eX ggaaeeX XXiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,6,10,6,4,2,4,3,3,7,13,7,3,1,3,3,1,7,3,6,3,6,5,15,2,7,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101110111 0101010101 1101011101 0100110101 0101010101 111101010000 1101010101 01010011101 1101110101 1111111111 01100100001 1011010100 1001011001 0101011001 1010110101 011000101 01010100001 0100110100 1101110111 1101010101 1001010111 11110100100 1100110010 1101010101 1101110111 1101011111 0101010001 0101010111 1100010111 0101110001 0011010101 1011001101 00010110 111 110101001 1111011011 1101010111 1100111101 111 10100100 1101011111 0101110101 101010101 1011110010 0101110111 11011111100 1001111101 11001011101 1111010 101 1111010101 0111011111 0101011101 1111110001 1111 100111 1111011101 110101111 1101010011 1101011101 11111001 11 0101110101 0101010101 1111111101 1101111101 0111110101 1101111 101 1101010101 100111 1101 1101100101 1111010001 1111111111 1101011101 0001110001 0101010 111 1100110111 1000111011 1011000111 01010101001 1111101111 1011011101 1111111110 1011011101 1001011101 1101111100 0101111101 01111100 11 1101010101 1001100101 1101000101 1100011101 0101110001 011101000 11 0101111101 0111001101 11111 10111 11110010111 11110101010 111101001001 1101111101 1101011100 1001110101 1111011111 010001001 1101010101 1100111101 1111010011 0111010101 1011 110101 1000110101 1101010 111 0111010101 1001110100 1111000111 1101010101 111101011 1 0101011100 1011110111 1100011101 1111010101 1101011101 0111110101 1111011011 010 10110101 1111011101 1101011111 1101110101 11010101011 0101110011 0101010101 1011000101 1101011110 1111110011 0111011111 1101110101 1101011111 1111011101 0111110101 1001010101 1101110001 0101000101 0101010111 010 0010111 01011101000 1101011101 1101010111 1101011101 0111110101 0101111111 01100100101 11110101 11 1111111101 11111101001 1010000111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, it, ', he, to, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, he, ', you are repeated.

    The author used the same words then, ', and 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 ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.

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  • summary of Little Jack Janitor;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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