This is an analysis of the poem The Preacher Down At Coles that begins with:
He was not especially handsome, he was not especially smart,
A great big lumbering fellow with a soft and tender heart.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXaddeeaaffgg hhaabb ddeeiicciXbX jkeeXXbX hhkkee bbii kjddaX kjbbll ddccaabbddff iihhaammii kkjkhhhhiiaaggkkaaeeXXeeaakXiiXb iiaaiXkkcc lXnnhhaa iinX kkooaXbX hheekkbbeeeeeeiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,6,12,8,6,4,6,6,12,10,32,10,8,4,8,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101001011101001 011100100011101 0101110010101 11010101110101 11011101010101 01111100010111 11110111110111 1110010100011101 101011101011101 10010011010011 111010100011101 111010100010101 111110111100001 10101010110111 01110111010101 1010001010011101 11110111110101 11011100110101 01110101111101 11111101010111 01110111010101 01111101110111 0111111110101 111110100110101 110100101110001 01011111010101 11111110111101 11011101010001 10010101010011 010101011001001 11010101011011 11110001111101 11000101010110 01011101010111 11110101110101 01110100110101 01010101110100 11011101110111 11011101110101 11111010110101 11011111111111 11011101110110 11111000111101 11111111010101 01011111110011 1111110010111 11110101010101 01111101111101 11010111110111 11011101110101 100101011101001 11010101110011 1101010001101 11110101010111 101111101010111 111101011101000 00111110110111 01111101110101 11010100100111 10100101110101 1101100101111110 10111001010010100 11111010010101 11111111010100 11010111110011 111010111111111 1010101100011101 101110101010101 111111100010101 111001001110011 101111100010111 1111100101011101 100110101010111 1011011101111101 101111101010111 111010100011101 101111100010111 111110100010100 111010010010111 11010111011101 10010100010101 0101010010111 0101010010011 01001111011101 011010010101 11111011110111 111011101011111 00100110011111 01011111110101 11010111110001 110110101011100 11010111100111 11010101010101 101111101010101 1110111010111001 001010100010101 010101011010111 111011101010011 110010101010111 01011101011111 11011101010001 01110101111101 1011001010101001 1011111111100101 110010101010101 101110011111111 111010100010101 11010100011101 101100111011111 111001101011011 1111011010001 111110100010101 111111101110111 101110100010101 011111101110111 11101010110111 111000100010111 001110110011101 11110001111110 101110101010101 111011101010111 111010111110101 110010111110101 11110101110101 101010101011101 101110111010101 101111101111101 101011101110101 1111101010100111 101110101010101 111110101110111 111110101110101 111111111010101 101011111110111 101000111010001 101000101010111 111010101110101 101010101011111 111101001010101 111001100010111 10010110101011111 111100110111101 0101010110101 10001101101101 11110101110101 11110101011111 01010111110001 11001101010111 11111101110101 11110100110101 111111011010000 1110101010100111 1010011111010101 111110100011111 1011101000101001 111100101110101 101010101010101 101011101011111 111011100110101 10101101111101 1110011111010100 111111101110101 101110101010111 101110110110111 100110111010111 1111111010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 645
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 166
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, his, be, and, to, ', i, she, that, their, all, talked, these, in, songs, of, him, ask, folks are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, songs, ask are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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