This is an analysis of the poem The Little Old Log Cabin that begins with:
When a man gits on his uppers in a hard-pan sort of town,
An' he ain't got nothin' comin' an' he can't afford ter eat,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd cecefdfd cecegfgfbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101110100011101 111110101110111 110011101110111 111010101110101 111010101010101 101011111011111 111110101010111 001011100010001 111010101010101 111011101110101 1010111101011101 111011101010101 111011101111101 111110101110101 111110101110111 001011101010101 101011100010101 101011101010101 11110111110001 111010111110101 101010101110101 101010100010101 111010101011101 111111101110101 11010101110001 11010101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 556
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', he, his, he's are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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