This is an analysis of the poem The Rhyme Of The Remittance Man that begins with:
There's a four-pronged buck a-swinging in the shadow of my cabin,
And it roamed the velvet valley till to-day;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdbdb Xefebbgb dadafhfh ciciaege cbeXajaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101000110110 10101010101 1110101011100010 111010101001 1111101010101010 10101010101 1111101111101010 00110011101 1011111010101010 11101110101 1010111010101110 10111110011 1010101011111011 1110110111 1111011011101110 111110101001 1010101010101010 10111010001 1011111011101010 10101011110 1010101110101010 0111010001 1111101011100010 00101010001 1011001010111010 10101010101 1010101000100010 11101110111 1111101010101110 00101010001 1110101010111010 11111010101 111101011111010 10100111111 1110101000101011 101011101110 1110111010111110 01011101101 1010111010101010 11111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 456
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (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; it, i, and, far, away, my, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words far, and are repeated.
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