This is an analysis of the poem The Good, Old-Fashioned People that begins with:
When we hear Uncle Sidney tell
About the long-ago... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbAAAB deXeXfXX AAAB dgdgfbfbaAAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 010101 11111111 111111 11011111 01010101 11010100 10111101 0011010 0111010 0101010 110101 11110101 110001 11011100 111101 111111110 110100001 01000111 110011100 0011010 0111010 0101010 110101 11010111 111101 01010101 010101 10011111 11111111 01111101 01001101 00011010 0111010 0101010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; people, an', they, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, an' are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines people is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word know at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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