This is an analysis of the poem The Reverend Micah Sowls that begins with:
The REVEREND MICAH SOWLS,
He shouts and yells and howls,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa bbcX ddee ffgg XXhh iXcc hhbb ggcX XegX jjeX hhXX aXhX kkgg bbhh XXXX jjjj iigg ggcX cXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101 111111 111111 111111 0101110101 0101010101 1101010101 110100010100 010101 011111 110001 010001 11001011101 01110001001 1011010110 1111010011 0101010 110101 110101 010001 10011110101 00011111010 0101101111 0101010101 010101 110101 1011111 010101 101010011111 1101011101 1111110101 111101000100 101011010 110101 111101 1101010 01010110111 0110011101 10110011101 11110111010 10100101 1010111 1101110 01011010 101110110001 1010101001100 0101010101 1000100111110 010101 010001 011001 111101 1101010101 1111010101 11110000101 1111011101 1100110100 1100010100 1101011100 1100110100 110110110101 11111111 1100010101 11010101001 110101 011101 111101 111101 101111000011 10101010110 1111010101 111111100 1001011 11100 110001 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, you, and, talked, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the, who, and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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