This is an analysis of the poem Hoodoo that begins with:
She mutters and stoops by the lone bayou
The little green leaves are hushed on the trees... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaAbBX caccaAbBX daddaAbBX eaeeaAbbX caccaabbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110110 0101111101 110111011 1011110111 011100101 1111 1111001101 111101 111100100 11011101001 0101111101 011100011 1010011101 1000100101 1111 1101001101 111101 11100100 1101111001 0101111101 1101100101 1101101111 10001101001 1111 11001001101 111101 11100100 00110101101 0101111101 110100111 0001101101 100110101 1111 1111001101 111101 11100100 0110010101 0101111001 11001011101 11001101011 1000100101 1111 1111001101 111111 11100100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and 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.
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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