This is an analysis of the poem Come After Jinny that begins with:
He'll be comin' down the road at the break of day
His head thrown back and his guns tied low...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb ccaad eeffd ggadaXfXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010110101 011110111 110101010100111110101 111001111111100001 111001011101111101 1111111100110111 11101111011011011 11010101 11011101011101001 11001101011101011 11111111111101101 11111101011111111 01110101 01101111001010101 011010100001011101 10101101011101111111 11111111110101 11110101 1110011111011 110101101 11110101111 11011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (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; his, and, him, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word road at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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