This is an analysis of the poem Ebenezer's Kid that begins with:
Ebenezer Orin he werz a friend of mine at school,
A mighty harnsome fellow an a very decent chap ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX ba ca c d ed edc d cc X X fX fXg cgXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,1,1,2,3,1,2,1,1,2,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011010111 01010101010101 010101100111001 1111010001110 1 11011100011101 11011000011101 11011101011101 11111100011101 011101000111110 011010101110101 111111011101010 11111111110101 11001011101011 1 1101110011111 1 11110110010101 101110101010001 111110101100110 11011101110111 110101010101010 11110011111101 10011111001010 1 11110111011101 111010101010101 11110100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; same, old, we, race, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, i are repeated.
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- summary of Ebenezer's Kid;
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- idea of the verse;
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