This is an analysis of the poem Bigtime that begins with:
Hey dragged up my holly and I pull it to a town for the bigtime
Hey rig down the road I tore 'em down I'm a bigtime...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXaaaXaXabba aaXXaaaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011100011010 1110111010010 11100101 1101001011 10101111110 10110101111011010 110110110001011110 111010111111110111 11111001101010 11011111111010010101 111011110011010 1111110111 1101010100111 1111101111110 11111000101100010 0110011101111110 10010111001101 110111101 11101110010 111111110111010 111000101011010110 11010111011111010101 01011001011100110 1101100101100110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, bigtime, my, late are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hey, i are repeated.
The author used the same word hey at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bigtime is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bigtime at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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