This is an analysis of the poem Paul Bunyan that begins with:
He rode through the woods on a big blue ox,
He had fists as hard as choppin' blocks,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab aXb ccb ddcb eeb eeb f fcb XXb ggb ggb bXbXbbbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,4,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110110111 111111101 1101111101 1011011101 11101101101 11100111101 101101111 11101101101 10110100101101 1011111101 0010110111 111011 101111010001 111001111001 1101011111 011110110101 11111101111 11101111 111101100101 111011 0101110101 011011101011 111011111011101 1111011010 0110101011010 1100100110001 11010101 11011101 1010110111101 111010111111 1111111111 1111100101101 11110100111 1111101101 11101111110101 1011110101 11101000101 101110101 11101010101 101010101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 41
- 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:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, can, and, his, says, got, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, it are repeated.
The author used the same words talk, he 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 me is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word paul at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Paul Bunyan;
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