This is an analysis of the poem Gwine To Run All Night, Or De Camptown Races that begins with:
1 De Camptown ladies sing dis song -- [Chorus] Doo-dah! doo-dah!
2 [Solo] De Camp-town race-track five miles long -- [Chorus] Oh! doo-dah... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbdb abab cbdb abab cbdb ababXcbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111101111 111011111101101111 1111111111101111 111111010101101111 110111 110111 11111010111 11101101 1110111010111101111 1111101111101101111 1110111000111101111 111111010111101111 110111 110111 11111010111 11101101 111110111001101111 111011101001101111 111110110111101111 111100110101101111 110111 110111 11111010111 11101101 111110111101111 11011101101111 11111010111101111 11111001111101111 110111 110111 11111010111 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dah, doo, chorus, de, solo are repeated.
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