This is an analysis of the poem Mamie that begins with:
MAMIE beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana
town and dreamed of romance and big things off...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXddceaXabXXXXXaeXf effX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010100101010 1110011111 1101011111 111010010111 1010110011 101101010101 1111010111111 011 111000101110110 1010110101100 11101001110101 111011101010 111100101 1011001011100 1111111001010 0101010011 110111110010010 00101 11011101010100 1111100100101 011100011110 10 01 111 111 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 532
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Mamie;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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