This is an analysis of the poem Black Moran that begins with:
The mule-skinner was Bill Jerome, the passengers were three;
Two tinhorns from the dives of Nome, and Father Tim McGee....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc XdeX XXbb aaXX dXfX fXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101101010001 11000101110101 11110111110111 01011101110101 1101101000110101 10010101011001 11010111011111 110001011011001 10111110100010110 11001101010111 0110011110001101 10001110101010100 10101001011010111 110101111100010 010011101111001 11010101110101 11010001110101 110001010111011 101010111110101 110101111101110 010100011011111 110111010111100 11010001110110 1101011111101010 10101101011111010 1011010111110000 1011101000110101 1101000101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and, you are repeated.
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