This is an analysis of the poem Joggin' Erlong that begins with:
De da'kest hour, dey allus say,
Is des' befo' de dawn,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaXbXbCC baXaadXdcC XXXXaXXXCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101101 011001 10101010 1011101 10101010 1010111 110111101 110101 11110101010111 010101010101 1111111101 1011011 1111111010 1010111 11101110 1111001 11111110 1111001 11110101010111 010101010101 01110011 0111110 101011010 1111101 10111010 1010101 10101010 1111101 11110101010111 010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; de, an', 's, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word long at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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