This is an analysis of the poem The Three Kings Of Chickeraboo that begins with:

There were three niggers of Chickeraboo -
PACIFICO, BANG-BANG, POPCHOP - who... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabX XcdX eeff ccgg bbhh iijX ccaa ddaX bbii kkaX bXll bbhX bbmm ddjj mmXX kkaX aXnn ccaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011001000 001011101 011100101 10101001010 0110100101000 010100111 0110100101 11110011100 11001110101 110101111 100010101 111100101 110110101 11011101 11010111 111100101 1010101001 11010110 11001101 110101101 100011101 010101101 11110101 0111011100 010100101 110100101 110010101 010011101 011100101 010101001 01110101 011101000 1010011001101 110010111 111101001 110010101 101001001011 1010010111 11100111 0111010000 0100100101 01010110 0100110101 1000100101 1010011011 110010101 1101100101 1101001000 010111110 01010001 001001000111 001110100 011100101 011101011 110100101 111100101 10010101 00110100100 111101001 1001010000 0100100101 111100101 110110101 001010100000 0100110101 1100111000 111001101 0101101111 111111101 1100100101 1111011011 010101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; we, to, i, his, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, their, i are repeated.

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

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