This is an analysis of the poem Satchmo that begins with:
King Oliver of New Orleans
has kicked the bucket, but he left behind...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdbd eeXefgfg hacXcXXaX XhibeiXXchX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110001100 1101011101 11000111 01010111 01010100 110101101 11100101 11010111 1110101 0011110101 111010101 001011101 11101010 00110100101 1110101100 001111101 111 1111101 011011 01110101001 1010101001 101101101 0011010110 10101111001 00110111 110 100111011101 111110 011 01001010010 101011110110 1110010111 110110001 101101 10001010000101 0110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; where is repeated.
The author used the same word old at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Satchmo;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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