This is an analysis of the poem Encouragement that begins with:
WHO dat knockin' at de do'?
Why, Ike Johnson, -- yes, fu' sho!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXabbccX aaddXeXXX bbccXXffX XbXbbXXccX ffeeggbXX hhddbbccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,9,10,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1110111 1011101 111111 1 1110101 1110111 1111111 1111111 1111110 11110101 1010111 1110011 1011101 1111111 1111111 1111101 1111111 1111110 1111101 1011111 1111111 1100111 1011101 1110101 1010111 1111111 1111110 1111110 1011101 111110 1 1110101 1111101 111001 1111101 1110101 1111110 1110001 1011111 101001 1111101 1111101 1011111 1110111 1111101 1111110 1111111 1111101 1011111 1110111 1110111 1110101 1010111 1111101 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; you, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word yo'se'f at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Encouragement;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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