This is an analysis of the poem Corncob Jones that begins with:

An Oldham-County Weather Philosopher.
'Who is Corncob Jones?' you say.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabab cdcXcd aaaaaa efefef cfcfXf Xcgcgc hXhbhb acacaX XiXiXX agXgaX ebXbeb eaeXea fdfdXd jdjdjd eieieXXbababa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100100 1011111 100011100 11110101 1010101 1110101 1111101 1010111 1011101 11100101 1110101 1111101 1011001 1111101 1110111 1000001 1010111 1111111 0110101 1110101 1011101 1111101 1110101 1100111 10010101 1011101 1010101 110100111 1111101 1010111 1011111 11111010 1110101 1010101 1110111 00100101 1111101 1011001 1110110 111011001 1101111 1110111 1110111 10010111 10111101 1100101 1111101 11010011 1111001 1010100 0111111 11111010 1111101 1111110 1110101 11100111 1010101 1011100 10111101 1110111 111100101 1111101 00100111 1110111 1110101 10011011 1111101 11110111 101001110 0111111 1110100 111100101 0110111 1110111 11110100 11111011 0011111 1111100 0110100 10111001 1111101 1110100 1110111 1110101 11011111 110100101 1011111 1011111 11001111 11111001 1110111 10011101 0111101 0010111 1111111 1111111 11110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 97
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, an', ', you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jest is repeated.

    The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    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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