This is an analysis of the poem Mon Choual that begins with:
I'm poor man, me, but I buy las' May
Wan horse on de Comp'nie Passengaire,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX XbcX Xdbd Xbeb XXaX Xfgf hdiX XXXa idid jkXk dhdh akjk lklX dcdc lhlh mbmb XkXk hXhX ldld Xebe cbcb mXma glnl Xndg hihi hXhX
- 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,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011111111 11101100 110101111 1100111000 01011010 111110101 011101111 111110110 111111110 111111101 1011011 101111111 111110111 1110111111 111111111 110110101 11111011 111110101 111110101 111111101 11011110 11011111 11110111 110011110 111110101 11110111 01000110 11111011 11110110 111111001 11011111 11111101 11010111 01010101 10110101 11110111 111101100 11011111 11101111 11111011 10101101 11111101 11111101 101111111 11011111 11010111 11010110 1101101 11010111 11110111 110110111 011101100 10111111 111010101 11111101 11110111 11111111 110010111 111110111 01101101 11011111 111000111 01101111 011101011 0111111 11111111 1110011 1001100101 11111111 11011111 111001011 01111100 11111111 11011101 01111111 10111111 11111110 11111111 11010101 11100101 11111101 11111101 1101111 11111101 11010101 111111001 11111111 11111101 11100111 111111011 11111100 11011101 1111110 11011110 111110110 11011011 11110111 11101110 01111011 10100111 10101111 11111111 11111101 110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 105
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', i'm are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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