This is an analysis of the poem Johnnie's First Moose that begins with:
De cloud is hide de moon, but dere's plain-
tee light above,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAccbddXXec ccAcccffeegc dAchdXXXXdc icAcgcfXXagX faAcdaffeecc XjAcejXXaXic agAcXghhXXXc jcXcfcaXffcc igXXggXXaaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,11,12,12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011101 1101 1010101111 1 101011010101 11 10101110 10111010 01001011 11101011 111010101010 101 11110101011 1 1010101111 1 1011110111 1101 1110110 10101010 11011010 10101010 1111101110 10101 10101011110111 1010101111 1 10101011011 101 10111010 100101010 1010101 0011111 101010010011 101 11110111101 01 1010101111 1 11010101111 11 10111010 1100011 11111010 10111010 1010111111 1110 11010111110 1 1010101111 1 01111110110 101 11101010 1111010 11101110 11101010 1101010101011 1 1111111101 11 1010101111 1 111010101110 111 11101110 10111110 11101110 00111110 1110101011 1101 1101011101 11 1010101111 1 111101011111 100111 11101010 11101010 11111110 11111110 101010101010 101 11100110111 1 1010101111 1 111101110110 111 11111110 11111010 11101110 10101010 101110101 10101 11111111 10101 110101010101 10 111111011 10111 111011110 111011110 10101110 011111110 1101010111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 107
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, your, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word does is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dere is repeated).
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- summary of Johnnie's First Moose;
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