This is an analysis of the poem My Dancin'-Days Is Over that begins with:
What is it in old fiddle-chunes 'at makes me ketch my breath
And ripples up my backbone tel I'm tickled most to death?--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXc dXeXec fXgggc Xfhhhc ddiiic eeXffc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100011010111111 11011111010101 101111100011001 01110100111111 11111111111100 11011101110 11010101111101 11011100110110 01011101111111 11110111110111 11111101011111 11111101110 11101100110101 010101011111 0101101001010111 11111101010001 010110101010101 01101101110 110011100010111 0110111101101 01110101011101 11110100100001 11110110111111 101101101110 01111101110111 01011110111101 11011111110111 11110101011111 110111101011101 11101101110 11111101110101 11110111111111 11010101111100 11101110110101 11110101011011 001101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
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; in, yer, i, first, and, er, at, night, all, wuz, then, as, you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word over at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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