This is an analysis of the poem True Johnny that begins with:
Mary: Johnny, sweetheart, can you be true
To all those famous vows you've made?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccX dedeccccc ccccffcccXfafaeeccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111101 01110111 01111111 01110111 11011111 11110101 0111 0101 110101 1010011101 11011101 11010111 11010111 0100100101 11010101 1111 0111 111101 1011110101 10101110 11111101 11110101 11011111 11011111 1101 1111 110101 1010110101 11010101 11111111 11011111 11011101 11110111 0101 0111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; you, and, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, when are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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