This is an analysis of the poem Whistling Sam that begins with:
I has hyeahd o' people dancin' an' I 's hyeahd o' people singin'.
An' I 's been 'roun' lots of othahs dat could keep de banjo ringin';...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcXdd XXXX XXccXXcc Xe XaXXXff ggeeXXXXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,2,7,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010111111010 11101101011101110 101010101111111 01001101111101 001000100010101 111110101010110 101010101111101 1111011111110101 1110101010101110 1011101010100110 101010101010111 111110101111001 1011100101010101 1011111010010101 1110110100010111 101001111010101 1111101110101010 1011101111111010 1110111110111001 101010101010101 0011111010111010 10101010101111 10 10100010111111 101110111011101 11111011111111 1110101011101011 001110101110101 101010111110101 101011101011101 111111101101101 101011101110111 111101001101101 11100111001100101 111110101111111 111101010111011 1111101001010101 111010101110101 101100101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; i, an', de, you, his, 'u'd, dey are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', when are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dinah connects the lines.
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- summary of Whistling Sam;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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