This is an analysis of the poem The Voice Of The Banjo that begins with:
In a small and lonely cabin out of noisy traffic's way,
Sat an old man, bent and feeble, dusk of face, and hair of gray,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bbcc bbdd XXXX eeaa bbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001110101010101 111111101011101 101110101011111 101110101010100 101000111011101 111010101011111 111010101010101 101010100010001 111010101010101 1010111011100101 101101101011111 0110101000011101 11101011111010110 101010111110101 101010101110111 1110101001010111 111100101010101 111010100010001 1111111000101101 101011100010001 101010111110101 1111100101111111 111111101011111 11110111001111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, be, us, let, you, could are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, and are repeated.
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