This is an analysis of the poem Uncle Jim's Baptist Revival Hymn that begins with:
By Sidney and Clifford Lanier.
[Not long ago a certain Georgia cotton-planter, driven to desperation... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcddeX adXfdagdXcfb XfXgXa dXXeE aXaee hXhEE iXiee XeXEX XXieX jXjEE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,12,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011001 11010101010101001010 1100110011011 1110101011110010 0010001010111 10110011010001010100 101101100010010100101 110010111010010 0101101001100010 110001010010100110 0101000101101010110010 110101011001110100 0001000110001101101 10100111101000001 0001011101010000001 10100100010010 11110010001000101001000 110011011101010111 01001111011101010100 0101011 00100110000101001010 100100011011001010100 01110110100100100 10000100110110001 11110100000100011011 0100100100001000111101 1111011101 010101 11110100 1011000011 1100001 11010101 1101001 11011101 11000011 1100001 01011111 010101 11111101 11000011 1100001 01011101 010101 111110101 11000011 1100001 01110010110 1101111 1011110101 11000011 11000010 10111101110 10111101 11111011101 101000011 101000010 1101100101 110011 1111010101 11000011 1100001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, of, in, grass, de, lord are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you's, de, dey's, hit's, dat, lord are repeated.
The author used the same word de 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 grass is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word grass at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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