This is an analysis of the poem A Front Row Seat To Hear Ole Johnny Sing that begins with:
Now you know some fellahs, they want fame and fortune
Yeah, and other fellahs they just wanna swing ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccb dbddb eaXXa dfbggB hXiib fbjjX e hbeeX XbkkB X afjllX XbfjbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,6,5,5,1,5,5,1,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111110 11101011101 11110111 1010101101101 10111011101 10101010111110 1111100101111 11111111 110110001 010111011101 10 111101 110111 11110100 110101 11111101010 1111 111001110101 110111011 1100111101 10111011101 1110111110 111111111101 1111110111 110110101000 10111011101 1101110110110 10111101000101 111111101 11111101 110111011101 10 11110110010 1010111101101 1110111111 10101101 0111011101 1110101111101 11111111111001 11110100101 1100111101 10111011101 1 111011010 111101111111 1101 10100110111 1110101101 101110110001 1111111011010 11011111101 110100101 01111101 110111011101 1011100110110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, i, to, said are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word sing at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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