This is an analysis of the poem The Jacket that begins with:
Through the Plagues of Egyp' we was chasin' Arabi,
Gettin' down an' shovin' in the sun;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabCbc dedeXCXcF edeXXCgcf ahahbCbcf agagdCXcF dgdXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,9,9,9,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101110100 101110001 111111101111111 11111110101 101011101010011 11010011 101000100010101 11101110101 11111101010101 101010101 101011101110101 11111010001 101010101011101 11010011 10110101110011010 11101110101 10101100 1110101010101 101000111101 11110101011101 111001111000 111010100011101 11010011 101010101010001 11101010101 10101100 111010101010101 101000110101 111110100010101 11101011111 110011101010101 11010011 1010010101010101 11101110101 10101100 111010101110101 101000010111 101010100010101 11101110101 111010111111 11010011 101010100010101 11101010101 10101100 111011001011111 11101010101 11100101011100101 10101011011 101011101100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', us, you, might, jacket, we 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 we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word etc at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Jacket;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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