This is an analysis of the poem Baby Vamps that begins with:
Baby vamps, is it harder work than it used to be?
Are the new soda parlors worse than the old time saloons?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010110100 10110101101101 1011111001110011111111011 00101010100101010101 010101111101011010010 01001001101101011111 11110010111101110110 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 68 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, at, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word wherever is repeated.
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