This is an analysis of the poem The Habitants Jubilee Ode that begins with:

I read on de paper mos' ev'ry day, all about Jubilee
An' grande procession movin' along, an' passin' across de sea,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbX XcdX eeff Xbcc ccdd ggXe XXbX hhdd ccgg XhXX hhXbiX XXhh iiXX aXXh bbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101101101101 1101010011100101 11001100100101 111011100110011 10101101101100101 1100111101111101 101101101011110101 100101100011011 01111001111110101 11001111011101001 01101001110101110 111001011110110 01011010110011 1101011011110111 1011011011111111 10111011011100101 10010101111111111 11111011101111101 1010110110110011111 11101101011110101 11011101111101101 10110011100110 10111011001110110 1101001011100101 11001101010101101 1111110101100100 11111011010110001 10111010111011100 00101111101101101 11111011111110101 11001011110111101 00111101000111101 1111101111010111 10111111110110001 10101110110101111 1110111111110111 10111101101101101 10110111100110100 101011110111010110 1100111001100111 111011011011100101 1101011000110101 1101110111111110 11 111101101111111 100 01011111010100001 11001001011110100 1101101111101111 10111011110010101 11111011001100111 11100111011110101 110010111111011 11111101011101000 11001100111101 10011101101011010 11001010101101111 1111100110111100 1100101001111111 11101011000101111 10101101111101100 10111011110110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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; an', de, of, from, dey, you, moder, so, dat are repeated.

    The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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