This is an analysis of the poem Speakin' At De Cou'T-House that begins with:
Dey been speakin' at de cou't-house,
An' laws-a-massy me,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcXc XdadXcXc efXfgXdX aXdXddXd XbebddXd gXXXefXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011 110101 11010111 110101 0111001 0010101 111001010 1010111 11111000 1010001 1111010011 1010101 11111011 1100111 1111110 0011101 11011110 1010101 10101110 1011111 0111010 1111101 11111110 101001010 11111011 11110101 10101010 11111110 10111110 1111100 11101110 1010011 11110001 1110101 11100110 1110101 11101010 1110111 10101010 101101 11101010 1010001 11111010 1010001 11101010 11101101 11010010 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; de, dey, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
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