This is an analysis of the poem Jim that begins with:
Never knew Jim, did you? Our boy Jim?
Bless you, there was the likely lad;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbaba cdcdcaca cecXfafX ebebgaga ecechahaXbgbggaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101111 11110101 10111101 110101111 11101011 11100101 1110100111 111 1111110101 010110111 10100101 0010110101 111011111 111011101 1010110101 111 1010111101 111100100101 110110111 1101001010 1111100101 111111101 11101101011 0110 110101101 111010111 111100101 110011111 11110111 111010111 111100111 111 11111101 0011100101 0010110101 11110101 0010111101 1011100101 1111101101 111 11111111 100110101 11111110110 0011011111 11111100111 1110110101 111011000 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, his, him, look, i, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, jim are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word jim at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase jim connects the lines.
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- summary of Jim;
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- idea of the verse;
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