This is an analysis of the poem And One For My Dame that begins with:
A born salesman,
my father made all his dough ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX cdd Xcc eff egg Xdd hii ejj Xaa jbX idd ejj ekk eXb Xhh all
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0110 1101101 1101011101100 0110 111110111 0111111010101 1101 111101110 1110101111010 11 101101101101 1011111011111 11010 1001010101 010010010111001 1011011 1100111 0111111101101 1111 11010101 10101101001011 01111 001110111 1111001010101 0110 11000011010 0101010100110010 11111 1101101 100110100101101 011 010100101011 11111100111 11101 0110101 0110100001000101 110 1111010111 100111110111 001 1110100010 0110101110111 11111110 111101111 110101001101 10101010 0110110 011111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; he, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, your, its are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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