This is an analysis of the poem Deacon Jones' Grievance that begins with:
I'VE been watchin' of 'em parson,
An' I'm sorry fur to say...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXecafaXdgdaagahiXijbjbcfXfakXkXbhbXkhkalXleaeadbXbabXbXhchaihigeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 72,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100010 1010101 11101010 0011101 10111010 10101110 11101010 0101110 11101110 1010111 10101010 1110101 11101110 1010111 11101110 1010101 10101110 0011101 00101010 1011001 00101010 1010001 10111010 10101010 10101110 1010101 11111110 111111 10101110 0010100 11101110 0011101 10111010 1110101 11101010 110011 110111110 1010101 11101010 1010001 11001010 1110101 10111010 1010111 01111110 1110101 10011011 1110111 10101010 1010101 11111110 010101 11110010 11110110 1111011 1011111 1111110 1110111 10111110 011111 1110111 0001101 10111010 0010101 11111110 11111011 11111010 1110110 11111010 01111010 11111010 111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2221
- Average number of words per stanza: 439
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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; to, its, it, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fur, an', 'at are repeated.
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