This is an analysis of the poem The Booby-Trap that begins with:
I'm crawlin' out in the mangolds to bury wot's left o' Joe --
Joe, my pal, and a good un (God! 'ow it rains and rains)....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac XdXd eXee fefe XXXX gfgf e hchc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100100101111 1111001110111 01111110111011 010100110101101 111110010111101 11111111010111001 110010110101101011 11111011101011011 11101100111011110 1011001010110101 1101101011110011 1010110101011 110110110101101011 01011101011011001 1111101101111101 110110101011011001 11001111011111111 11101101111011010 111110111011101101 11011111011011011 011011010110010010 111001111011100011010 11111100101110011010 1111101100101101110 1110111100111001 1111101011111111 11111101011011101 11101010111111111001 111001010001001011110 01011011001101001 1111101101001001 111101101100111 1110101100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i'm, and, o', 'e, to, she, i, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'm, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase joe connects the lines.
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- summary of The Booby-Trap;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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