This is an analysis of the poem Jaloppy Joy that begins with:
Past ash cans and alley cats,
Fetid. overflowing gutters,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eXedfbfb egegeheh iXigieiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 10101010 1010101 10101010 0010101 11101010 1111101 00100010 1100101 11100010 1011101 00101110 1010101 10101010 1010111 10111010 1010011 11110110 1111111 10101010 1110111 11111010 1011001 10100010 1010101 00111010 1110101 11101010 1010111 11100111 1010101 10101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and is repeated.
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