This is an analysis of the poem An Easy Goin' Feller that begins with:
Ther' ain't no use in all this strife,
An' hurryin', pell-mell, right thro' life....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXddeeffddgghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11011111 110101011 01111111 01110110 111110111 11011101 01011101 01011101 11110111 11110101 01111101 01110111 11111111 11111011 11010101 01111111 111111001 111111110 100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 694
- Average number of words per stanza: 146
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, my, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, an' are repeated.
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- summary of An Easy Goin' Feller;
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- idea of the verse;
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