This is an analysis of the poem Nine From Eight that begins with:
I was drivin' my two-mule waggin,
With a lot o' truck for sale,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabXbcccCdXEX fgXgfdfXgcCdXEX dcdcbhbXXiideed XhjhhjhjjiideeX dfdXeXecXXXdeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,15,15,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011110 0011111 011001110 111011001 111001101101 101101011110 0100100111 111011101 0110110111 10101001001 00101100001 11111010 111111111 0111011101 11011010 11011110 011001 1010110100 1110101 1101100111 010110100 101011000101 1110101000 010011101 111110001001 00101100001 111011010 101111101 0111011101 11011010 11111010 10110101 101111010 1111111 111110101 1111010101 1100111001 111101101 0101100111 1111111011 1111011011 01011010 111111101 111111101 11011010 1111011 11101011 11011111 00111111 1111110111 11111001011 11111011011 1110000111 1100111111 001011101011 11111111011 11101010 110011111 1111011101 11011010 11110110 1101111 101011010 1110111 11111001011 1111101111 11111001001 1110110111 11001111010 111101101011 11101111010 11101010 111111111 111111101 11011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, eight, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, my are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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