This is an analysis of the poem Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine that begins with:
Want to trade me, do you, mistah? Oh, well, now, I reckon not,
W'y you could n't buy my Sukey fu' a thousan' on de spot....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBcccB ddBaaaB aaBeeeB ccBXXXB XXBfffB ggBbbbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101111101111101 111111101010101 11111 111111101111101 101111111110101 111110101010111 11111 1111111001110101 111011001010011 11111 1110101111100011 01011111110101 10111010110011 11111 111010111110011 1111111101010101 11111 111111111110001 111111111111111 111111101110111 11111 111010101111111 111011101011111 11111 10110101110101 11110110011110011 11111010111100101 11111 1110111011110111 1011011011101101 11111 111100101011111 111111101111111 1011101011110101 11111 111101101111011 101010101110111 11111 1010011101010101 110111101011101 110111101011101 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, to, huh, an', i, de, o', you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ef is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word mine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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