This is an analysis of the poem When The Hearse Comes Back that begins with:
A thing 'at's 'bout as tryin' as a healthy man kin meet
Is some poor feller's funeral a-joggin' 'long the street:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcXDebc bbffaacXDebc eeeXggccDebc ggbbXXcXDebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111101010111 01110100010101 01110101010111 10101010010001 01100101011001 01110101110001 111010101110111 0101010 10 1 1 1 101010100110111 11011111011101 11010101110101 11001111110101 11000111010001 11110110111001 10011111010111 1101110 10 1 1 1 0101110011111 10111101010101 11010010111101 1111110110101 11010101110111 010110101010100 01011111111111 0101111 10 1 1 1 01010111011101 11010111111111 1101010111101 1101010110101 11111101111101 11011101110100 01111101010101 11111110 10 1 1 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; of, slow, to, and, his, fer are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, yer, when, and are repeated.
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