This is an analysis of the poem The Boy On The Farm that begins with:
Out in Oldham County once
Met a boy who showed me how... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXccdede beebffgcgc hddXaafcfc ijjiggkgkg lmmleeanan XffaeeeXeXXgddgnnhfhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010101 1011111 1111111 1111101 1111111 1101111 1010111 0111111 1011111 0111111 1111101 0111111 1011111 0110111 1111101 10001011 1110111 1011101 1111111 1011111 1110101 11111111 1010101 1110101 1110101 1111001 0011111 1011111 1011111 1110101 1111101 1001101 0010101 1100101 1111111 1110101 1111111 1111101 1110111 1111101 1110101 0111111 1110101 1011111 1010111 1100101 1011111 1110101 1010101 1010101 1111101 1111101 1011111 1011101 1011111 1011111 1111101 1011110 1111111 1110111 1111101 0010111 0010101 1011111 1011101 1011111 10100111 1011110 1010101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 70
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, in are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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