This is an analysis of the poem Willie Metcalf that begins with:
I was Willie Metcalf.
They used to call me "Doctor Meyers"...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabaXbcXdefXcXgXddXafeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 11011100100 01111111 1111100100101 110010010 10101 1110101011 101001 1110101001010 0110111110 1011111010 0101011011 111101011001 1101111001 11001110001 01110010010111 10111110100 111010011 10010010 0101001010 0110101011 1111010100101 1101101101001 010100111011 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 990
- Average number of words per stanza: 185
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, in are repeated.
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