This is an analysis of the poem The Black Dudeen that begins with:
Humping it here in the dug-out,
Sucking me black dudeen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbbccb ddeeffffbbgghh iijjaabbaacc jjkXdXccaaaa cceellaamm ffiiffffeeXXmmXXfX bfjXXmkkm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,14,12,12,10,18,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010011 101110 1101001001 1101100 110110011 00111101 101101 11001 01110111 1111111101 1010101101 1100101101 1010111111 110101101 110101101 1010111110 111100101 110010011 1001101111 0010100101 1110111101 10001111010 10100101010 11101110101 100100111 111111111 1011101011 11110101 101110111 111101011 110100111 101101101 01000001000101 010101111 110011101 1101111111 1111101111 1110100111 11110101 110110101 11110011010 111101101 1111111101 1110111100 1010100101 1110100101 110101101 1011110111 1111111101 11110101101 1010111111 1100110001 1110101111 111100111 1101110111 1011101101 110101111 11101011001 10111101 111111011 10011111 1110111001 1011100101 1101001101 101111111 1111011011 10101101111 111011110 0100110100 111000101 11111111101 110111001 1110110100 11101101101 110111110 1010010 1101001 10101111011 10101110 11111010 1111001 01011 11111 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 469
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, and, he, to, run, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, i, and, like are repeated.
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- summary of The Black Dudeen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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