This is an analysis of the poem My Sweet Brown Gal that begins with:

W'EN de clouds is hangin' heavy in de sky,
An' de win's 's a-taihin' moughty vig'rous by,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbXXXXccddXXXXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010001 101101010101 11101011001 11101010111 111110011101 11101010101 10111010101 10101011101 10111011101 1000110101 11101111101 11101011111 1111100100011 10101011111 10101110010 11101010111 11111010011 11111011101 11110010101 11111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 901
  • Average number of words per stanza: 179
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, my, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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  • summary of My Sweet Brown Gal;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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