This is an analysis of the poem How Bateese Came Home that begins with:

1 W'en I was young boy on de farm, dat 's twenty year ago
2 I have wan frien' he 's leev near me, call Jean Bateese Trudeau... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabX bbaa XXcX ccXd ebfX XcXX XceX ggah ccee ddbX XXaX bbgX aaXX Xigg eeXj bbff XXjj XXha ccXX XajX jjbX XicX bbXX XXXX XXXX kkcX XXXX lleX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111011110101 1111111111111001 111011101111101 101111111111111 1100101111111101 111010010110111 111110101110101 1111110111111111 11111101011110101 1110110111111110 111011111110111 11011110111011 111111010111101 11111111101111 11111011011111 11101010111111 1111100110110100 11101100111100 11111111110101 111010100111111 11111111111011 111110101110110 101111111101110 111011101111100 1111011111010101 101111111111111 1111101011110101 11110111111111 111010111111111 1111010110111101 111111101110111 1110101011111001 11101111110101 111101001111101 101011110110111 1111101111111101 1111010101111101 1111111101010111 111111100111101 1110111101111111 11111001100111 111100111111111 1111110101111001 1111111111101110 1111111101111111 111011111111101 1111011111111101 11111001111111000 11101011011111101 111111111111111 1111011001110101 110111111111101 111011111100100 111111101111101 111111111111101 111010010111111 111011101011101 1111111111111101 1110111111111100 11111110111111 1111001101111111 110110111111111 101111011110111 111111111010111 111010111111110 110011100100111 1111111110010111 1111010110111111 111010111111010 1111001111111 111011101111001 11111110111101 1011101011011001 11110101001111111 1111111011111110 110110101000010 111110111111111 111111001110111 110111010111011 1111011011111110 111111111010111 1111010100010101 1111001101101101 10101101001111100 111101111100100 111111101110101 1111111111110011 1110111101111 1100111101110101 111010111101101 1011101110101 111100111111111 1011111011011010 1110111111101111 1100101101110101 111110111110110 111000101110100 111000111101111 110111111111010 1101101011011111 1100101111111101 11111110111111 1111111001111101 1111110111110100 111011110110100 1100111011111100 1110100101111100 111101100011100 1111001011111101 1111011101111111 111111111110100 1101100111101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, w'en, he, de, on, 's, i, an', you, lak, long, say, ', ma are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is 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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  • summary of How Bateese Came Home;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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