This is an analysis of the poem Hustlin' In My Jeans that begins with:

Yes, I'm holdin' down the homestead here an' roughin' it a bit,
It seems the only kind o' life that I was built to fit,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd aaaadddd eebbdddd ffddggXd ffhhiiXd jjddffdd kklXlldd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101010111110001 01010111111101 101001101111101 111010111011101 111110111010111 101000101010011 11101011110101 110100110101011011 11011101110101 101010111010101 111010101010111 111010101010111 1110001011100101 101111110010101 11000100110101 110100110101011011 111011101110101 111010100110001 101110110011101 1110111011110100 11111101010001 111010111010001 111010101010111 111110111110101 100111101010101 101110111111111 111010111011101 111100101111101 111010110100101 111010111110011 00100010110101 111010101011011 111011101011101 111011101110111 111010101010101 101100101010101 001111100011101 101110101010011 111111101010011 111111101011011 111111101111001 110010101010001 101011101111101 111100101111101 101010111010101 111111110110101 111110101110101 001011101011011 11110110110101 101010101001001 101110101010011 101011100010100 111110101110101 11110101010101 11010111010111 11110111110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 497
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • 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', to, my, i've, tried, your, you, of, their, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', there, that, where are repeated.

    The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word jeans at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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