This is an analysis of the poem Ma And The Ouija Board that begins with:
I don't know what it's all about, but Ma says that she wants to know
If spirits in the other world can really talk to us below....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXbb ccaabX aXXXbX cccXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010111111101 0100010111010101 111111011101011 1 0111000111110101 1111011111010101 1101110111110101 0101010101010111 1101010111110101 1111110111011101 1111010111010101 1111010111110111 1111010111010101 1101110111111101 11001101111101101 1001110111110001 0101110111001101 1110001111001111 1101110111010101 1111011111111001 1111111111010101 1101111111010101 1011010111111010 11010101110111 10 1111111111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; to, an', you, then, ', says, tell are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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