This is an analysis of the poem How It Happened that begins with:
I got to thinkin' of her--both her parents dead and gone--
And all her sisters married off, and none but her and John... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa aaddaaXX bXaabbaa eeaaffbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001010111 11010101111011 01010110110111 11011100100101 11010101110001 110001011111001 010111010110001 111010001010111 11010001010111 11010101010111 10011101011001 11100111110101 11011011110111 11001111110011 11010101011101 011101111011100 11010000110101 11010011111100 111110111011101 110011011110101 10011010110111 110111000110111 1100001011110101 111110100010101 11010001111111 11000101010111 01010101110101 11011001010101 11110101010101 101110101011001 11110100110111 111010001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 464
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, to, she are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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