This is an analysis of the poem Not The Joe I Thought He Was that begins with:
I uster think that Joe was rough,
An rather fond uv a row. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcc ba b d bX bee bX b X fd faa fX f gc g cee afXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,2,1,1,2,3,2,1,1,2,3,2,1,2,1,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 1101101 10100100101 1011100101 100101 1110111101 1111111 111111101 1111101 1011111011 0100111 1111101001 110011111 011111 111011101 1111101 101010101 110011 11110101 110101 11010111 11110101 110111 11010101 111001 1100010111 1101101 010101101 1111101 111011011 0110111111 1110101 11011000101 10101001
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 63
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, an are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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