This is an analysis of the poem Folk Singer's Blues that begins with:
Well, I'd like to sing a song about the chain gang
And swingin' twelve pound hammers all the day,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdEfbagfXaXdEhdXhhcXfdEcXXcXbccdEfbbgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101011 1101110101 1101101110 11011101011 111101111110 111010100101 111010101 100010 1110100111111 1101001111 111010101011 10111110111 101110110110110 11110101011 111101111110 11101111101 1110101 00111011 1110111011111 1101110111 111010101011 010010101 1111110111010011 01111111011 111101111110 11100011111 101011101110111 1101011010011111 110101101001 1111010101010 101010101 110101110 110101010 111001111111 111101111110 11101010101 1110101 111111 101010110010111011 0101011001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1869
- Average number of words per stanza: 374
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and, chain, your, hard, you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, your are repeated.
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