This is an analysis of the poem Jim Bludso Of The Prairie Belle that begins with:
Wall, no! I can't tell whar he lives,
Becase he don't live, you see; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXe afefghih iejejdfd XcccckXk dciccdfX ciXiXeke XgkgXkik
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111 1011111 101110010 0101111 111010111 1110111 110101001 0100101 101110101 0110101 110111001 10101101 010100111 11101001 1110111101 11011011 1011001011 010101 10011010 010101 10100101110 010111 110100101 1011101 1111110100 101111 010010101 10111001 1111100111 0101101 0010110101 101011011 01011111001 1101001 111011111 11101101 11101101111 10100101 1010100101 101101000 1011100101 110111 1111100100 1111101 110111111 100111 11011101 00100101 101111110 111101 100110100 1111101 110100111 1110111 1110100011 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; he, never, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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