This is an analysis of the poem The Mountain Whippoorwill that begins with:
Up in the mountains, it's lonesome all the time,
(Sof' win' slewin' thu' the sweet-potato vine.)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddeebbccffggaXhhhhiiffjjcfcfjjeecXkXbbXbbjjXXjjkkbXfXkkllififbbeemmhhgeXeiiccXcbabbnnnXopoieqeqnnXGGggjjiieerrhhXeXbXnnGGpXhXXeXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 135,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010010101 11101010111 10010010101 10101010111 1001010001 100011011111 1001010101 1110110101 10010101 110101010011 1011101101 1110101010101 101010011101 1110100010101 101010101101 11110101110101 100110101101 101010111111 1110100010001 111111100010101 10101010101 101010000111 1111110101 1011100010101 11100010001 11100110100 111000111 11010101110101 11011011101 1010100110111 1010101010101 0110101010101 101010101101 1010101101 11100010101 1010100010111 10101011101101 11001111110101 111011101010 1010101101110 11101010101 111110100110111 11001101010110 111010101 11101011010111 1110101000111 11101010010001 1111101111101 11101010110001 10101010101 111011111011 11101111010 11101010101110 1110101101010 111110111010 11010011100 0111001010 1111111110 111101111110 101110011110 11001011110 110111101 1010100110111 110110001001 11101110001 1100110101 110010101 11010101 11010101 110111101 1100111011 110111101 110010101 111100111 10011111 11111001010 10011011 1111111111 1110101101 1110110111 111011111 100101101110 1111000111 111010010001 1110101010111 11001111001 1110100101 1101011010 11101001010 110111101 1110100100 110100111 1111010 1101010111 1001101 110101001 1101110 1011100111 01011010 1110111010 1011100110 111010111 1111 111 1010101001 101010111111 111011101 1101010111 1010101001 1101111101 10001110001 1111101110101 1001010101 1001000101 100100101 1011110101 1111010101 111101011 1111101010 101110011101 1101010100 10010110001 1010111101 1111 111 111010 1100111110 10011111 11111001110 110100 1111101111 10011011010 11100101111 1110100011 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 6127
- Average number of words per stanza: 1110
- Amount of lines: 135
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; mountains, in, to, his, could, he, fiddle, like, they, their, an', fiddled, my, i, they've, whippoorwill are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hear, he, an', my, whippoorwill, sing, hell's are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fair, loose are repeated).
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