This is an analysis of the poem On The Banks O' Deer Crick that begins with:
On the banks o' Deer Crick! There's the place fer me!--
Worter slidin' past ye jes as clair as it kin be:--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbAA ccXbccdd eeaXeeff XXXaXXAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111110111 1010111111010 1110001010101 101010101110101 1010101110101 111110101011101 111010101110101 10111110111 10111110101 11101110101 101101101000 11010101010111 11111101111 101011111101 111011110101 1110100010111 10111110101 10001110101 10111010101 0111010110100 1000101010111 111111110111 111011000101 11110101100111 010111011101010 11111010110101 1111011111111 101111110111 111011110001 10011111010110 111010101110101 10111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 439
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; as, o', shadder, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
The author used the same word on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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