This is an analysis of the poem After A Visit that begins with:
I BE'N down in ole Kentucky
Fur a week er two, an' say,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXadb XefefXff gdgdfdad aXaXecaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1010111 111111010 1011001 10100110 1110100 111101010 1111101 11111110 00111001 10111111 1111101 101111011 1010101 10111111 1110101 11111010 1011111 11101010 1110111 11111111 1110111 10101010 0010101 11111010 0111111 11101010 111011010 111010110 1010111 11101010 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less 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; they, you, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase see connects the lines.
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