This is an analysis of the poem At Candle-Lightin' Time that begins with:
When I come in f'om de co'n-fiel' aftah wo'kin' ha'd all day,
It 's amazin' nice to fin' my suppah all erpon de way;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aaXX XXaa X XXXX cXcc XcbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111010111 0110010111011001 1011010101010001 1011010101010111 1110101010101001 1010101101010001 111010101010101 11101110101101010 101010101110101 1110101101010101 111111001010101 101010101110101 11111010111110 1 111100101110011 1101110101111101 111101101011111111 1101111101010111 111010101111011111 11111110111011101 10111010111111101 111111111110101 111111101010101 111110101011101 111011111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, it, to, 's, an', dey, i, dat are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
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