This is an analysis of the poem A Banjo Song that begins with:
OH, dere's lots o' keer an' trouble
In dis world to swaller down;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdaXaXbebXafaghdhXifiXjcjkdfdXlmlmbcblnXXkgbcfnenXololpdpkafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111110 0110101 11101010 0011101 110111100 1111101 101111100 1111101 10111010 1110101 10101011 1110101 10101010 0100101 11101011 1010101 11101011 0010101 11101010 1110101 10111110 1110101 10101111 1110101 11111010 1111111 10101110 1110101 11101110 1010101 10101011 1111101 11111110 10111001 101001010 1110011 11111110 1011111 11111110 1110110 11110110 1010111 10111010 10010101 11111010 1110111 10101110 1010100 10101011 1110101 00101110 1010111 11111010 1010111 00101010 1110101 1011010 1010111 11101111 1011111 1111000111 1111101 10111011 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1969
- Average number of words per stanza: 397
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; an', de, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
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