This is an analysis of the poem Squire Hawkins's Story that begins with:
I hain't no hand at tellin' tales,
Er spinnin' yarns, as the sailors say;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccddee bfbXXceeeXccceeddeegX eebcbcggcXhh ijijddkk hhXcggaldd hhaaeXllegegkkmmcc XkckbbeeeenXiX dkdkllddddeXXbbbX kkkkXaackkclcX bhbhhgg ebXbkkkkaaaagXccoo ddccXXdd cciXbXkkXeXXbeggbbee ggceceggXe cgcgeXaaXXgg ncXcllaaaXaaaaXpipialnn XekkeaiiXeeccnXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,21,12,8,10,18,14,17,14,7,18,8,20,10,12,23,39,21,16,15,6,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 010110101 100110101 011100101 110111101 1111001110 110100101 11010101 101000001 111011111 1110111 101011101 11110101 101010111 11110111 1100101101 010100101 11110111 111100101 111100100 010110111 11011111 111100101 0011110111 110111101 1011111101 101010101 11111101 1010011111 11011110 11011110 11111111 11110111 10010101 11011111 10000111 010100101 1010110101 011110101 10100101 110110000 010110111 110010111 10101111 111001001 101010101 1010100111 101110101 001110101 011000111 101011111 1110101111 110100111 110110101 011100111 010000111 101010111 1010100101 1110100101 111010101 01110101 111100101 101010101 111000101 1111101 11010101 100111100 11111101 11110100 11110101 0010110101 1010110111 011010101 11101101 010010111 011100101 111101111 111101011 111101101 11110010 10110101 11110101 11101101 10111111 101011101 1011101 01110101 11110111 11011101 11111111 11101110 11010111 11001111 11111101 11111101 110100111 110101111 010110101 111011101 11101111 111101111 11110101 11010011 11010111 10011110 11011111 1011100101 11010111 111111011 111110101 1100100101 010000101 10110111 1011011 010100100 10111101 101100111 111101101 11110101 111101001 0110101 11111011 11111111 1101101000 110100101 11011101 11011101 100110101 00111101 00111111 101011111 1100011001 11010100 11110111 10110111 01111111 111011111 101011101 101010011 1111111111 111111100 11111101 01110101 11011101 110001001 1010110111 1110110101 0010001101 1110110111 1111111001 1100100101 101110101 1010111111 111111100 1101111110 1110110111 111000111 1011111111 111100111 111011111 011011110 1101111100 1100100101 11111111 1110101101 110111111 111111101 10111111 10101101 110111101 111100111 111011111 1111111 110100111 10001111 1110111111 11111101 1110110111 101011110 1010111001 110101101 1111111 1010100111 111100111 10111111 11111000110 111111101 110101101 011110111 1010100101 1101001001 011110101 111111010 11011101 001111101 1011100111 11100100 110101101 110101001 11110101 011010111 0010110100 01110101 01111111 11111101 010010111 01010101 11010011 11010100 11110101 11010111 01010111 11010111 11101100 010111001 1111101 0010010111 11111101 01000101 01010101 01010011 11010101 11110111 11010111 01111101 110111001 11110101 11110101 11000101 11101101 111101110 11011101 11110101 11110101 01111101 01011101 010111010 110011101 110110111 01110101 11001111 01011101 01010111 11011111 0111101 11111111 11110101 11110111 11110111 01011101 11010101 11010001 11111001 01111101 11011101 11111111 01011110 010111001 11111100 11110111 111110111 11111101 00011101 01111101 11011101 11000101 11011100 111100111 11111101 11010101 11110101 01110110 11110110 11010101 01010111 11000101 11010101 11110111 11010111 11011101 11011111 11010111 11111111 11011111 11010101 11010101 01110101 11010101 01110111 11101101 11111111 01010101 11011111 11111001 10110101 01110111 11100111 11010011 11010111 01110101 11010101 01010111 10110101 11111101 11010111 11110101 11101101 11110111 01110111 01011111 01011101 01011101 01110101 11011101 01011101 11010101 11111101 01011101 11010101 01110111 11110111 11011101 11111101 11111101 11000100 11010101 11011101 11111101 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 556
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 329
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, as, i, laughed, you, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they, of, er, i are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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 you connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Squire Hawkins's Story;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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