This is an analysis of the poem Johnnie Courteau that begins with:
Johnnie Courteau of de mountain
Johnnie Courteau of de hill... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabC XdXadC XXXXXC XXXXXXC efXfC XXbbeC XXggXC XhXihC jXbXXC jXXXaC XaXaaC kgk aXbXXX kXC iaddXC XgXXgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,7,5,6,6,6,6,6,6,3,6,3,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100010 1010001 11011101 11011111 10110101111 1010 1101010 110101 11010000 010001011 011011101 1010 11101 110100 11011101 1100101110 1000100111 1010 101011011 0011100 111010100 1 101110111 111011010 1010 11011111 0101111 1111011 101111101 1010 111011110 11011 1110110101 1011010111 1111111101 1010 111011110 1011001 111100101 010101101 1110110110 1010 11001100 1111110 1011001101 1110110101 1111110110 1010 11010110 1100100 11111101 1111100110 1110110111 1010 110011010 11101100 1111010111 110111101 11100101101 1010 10011010 01101011 1110111010 011010111 111101111 1010 110111010 1100111 11110101111 11101 110100 11111 1111110 1010101111 101111100 100100111 11001101100 1010 11111110 0111111 101110111 1111011101 11101101100 1010 1100101 1101101 110011011 1101111101 1110110101 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; de, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words johnnie, dat, ax, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word an' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word courteau at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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