This is an analysis of the poem We Ain'T Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain that begins with:
call it the greenhouse effect or whatever
but it just doesn't rain like it used to....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdefgXhdXaiijkiehlhmdeknkXhkjiieXiddcXhcgidmfeofefhkedipdhahdikalkeaiqocdgXieXXXpXadcXkneirksjkecroekkinbnoehbnnn eocksmedtaXmidkagdeijhtdidndonoadbqdaafbdhmkfXkfkklddfnrekkoifkXkbeiedlckbikhoohadXdkbkegXiigkoXkadlbikikdlcemcehbliObiXleekkjdotiichfkiO
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 116,183,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011011110 1011011010 1110000100100 01010 1101010111 1001 010111011 01 01111111 1 101100011 101010111 10 1011111 11 10 11101001 0110001 1010011 01 1111 1101 10 01010001 101 110 1 11011 10 101 01101 1110 110010 011 01 0111100110 010111011 10010 10111110 101101110 100011000 110111001 111101010 101 101011 101010 1010110 110111 0101 1000101 0010011001 1110 11 1 0101011 11110 110 010111 010 111001 10100100 11000010 100011 111101 101101 1111 11010 100110100 1001001 11010001 111110 101 11111 010 01010 1 011 1000 11111 1111001 11111 1110010 11011 110110 1101 1011010 1110111 111010 100 111 1101001 01111 10101 001 100101 0110 110 101 1001 1101010 1 111011 01 111 1 111101 1 101110 1 011111 101 1110110 0110100 1 1 1 111111 1111 110 101011 1110 1010 11 011 010010 10 01001001 111 11010111111 110101 11 1011010 0 1101 101 1011 11010100 111111 110100 10 1 110101 1001 111 0110 1 1100 110 10110 01010 10101 1010 100010 10110 11 1 0111110 10101 110 101011 1 01111 110010 10111 110010 1 101100 1 10111 1011 01011 1001111 01001 100011 10101 10 100111 11 10 110101 1011 111 10 1 1 111 10101 101000 1 01101 1 110101 1 1011111 11 10100101 01111 1000101 111 111001 1 1111001 10101 10111 1000 11 11110 111 0 101101 1011 1100 101 100 10 111010 1111 10111 01 1111 1 1111 100 001010 11 000111 1111010 1 11010011 1111100 10111001 110110 10011 1010011 11101 110111 1110101 1101001 101111 1111011 101101 01010110 1011001 0101011 0010101 01011 1001 111010 100010 1 11100001 10 10011 1001 101 111011 10110 10 1111 10111 1 1111 10100 10110111 11111 0101 1010 11010 1 11000 1 1110101 01 0111 1101 100001 1011 1011 10 11110 1001110 1 101101 001 11010 01 10 1001 1 10101 11011 1 101101 11 01 1110000111 011101 01 1
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2880
- Average number of words per stanza: 544
- Amount of lines: 300
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, eggs, drip, pang, lying are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words again, eggs, drip, and, stories are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines and, drip, that are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase drip connects the lines.
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