This is an analysis of the poem Keep A Song Up On De Way that begins with:
Oh, de clouds is mighty heavy
An' de rain is mighty thick;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBXaBccXXb XXBXXBddeeB XfBXfBbbeeB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1010101 1011101 10100010 1010001 1011101 1011001 0010111 1110011 1010101 1011101 10111010 1010101 1011101 10101010 11010101 1011101 10110101 11010101 1111111 1010101 1011101 11101010 1011001 1011101 10111010 1110111 1011101 1111101 1111111 11111111 1100111 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word way at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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