This is an analysis of the poem The Baldness Of Chewed-Ear that begins with:
When Chewed-ear Jenkins got hitched up to Guinneyveer McGee,
His flowin' locks, ye recollect, wuz frivolous an' free;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc adadd eefXgX aaggdd hhffiX icicfdfdjejekk aaffkXeeiidd kkaaiiff aaXiffXdff hhffhhXiiddhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,6,6,14,12,8,10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110111010001 01011101110011 10110110011001 010111011110001 11011101111001 11111101011101 11011101110001 11011101110101 11011101010011 1101001011101 11011101111001 10100001111110111 11010100110101 11111111111001 10010101110010100 111111011111110 1111011111010100 11010111110101 11110101110011 01001101110101 11010111011101 110100101010101 1111010110101 11000101110001 1101110111101 11010101011111 11010111010101 11011101110101 0111001101010000 01111110010101 11101000010101 11010101010001 11111101010001 110111111101101 0110111000010101 11011100100111 1100101110101 11101101110001 11010101100111 11010101010101 01010101011100 11010100010111 11010010001110101 010111011010101 110101000010001 010111001011010111 1101010001111001 110111011110111 0101000100111100 10111011011011101 111111101011001 110101110111101 10000111011001 11110100110001 11010100010101 010101001010101 11010100111111 11011101110101 11011111010101 1111010010000101 1110100001000011 01010101011101 11010110110101 01010101110011 11011001110101 11010011110100 01110011010101 01010111110101 10101010111010111 010101110110010 11111011110001 11010101110101 11110101111101 11111111110101 11111100110101 11110101010111 11011100010111 1111011011101 11010101110101 11111101010101 11010101110101 11010011011101 11000000101011101 10010100110111 01011111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 475
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; an', they, of, shaved, he, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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