This is an analysis of the poem Packing Her Jack Daniels that begins with:
She taught high school.
With the eagerness of a beaver....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXX dXadbdebfd faXcc fghff hXXch fXiddbi XX cgX XdhX bX XX X jejXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,5,5,5,7,2,3,4,2,2,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 001000010 1100101 00110001100 1001111 1110010 1010011011 10101 00101 01010 11111 10101 001010 1110110 101 100110 1010010 10101011 10110 111110100 10011110 11101001 111110101010 1011110010 10010101 0101011110001 11101111 10101 0111 10101 1101111 10100101 0011100111 11111010 1111001 1110010 10100111 10 110101 011 11111010 1100100100011000 1 1111110110 110100101011 11100 00101110 01011011 10 010101101100100 111011111 11 0101011 11111 110101011 11001000100 11111011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 57
- 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 three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and, she, on are repeated.
The author used the same word she 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 it, ' are 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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- history of its creation;
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