This is an analysis of the poem Minnie And Mattie that begins with:

Minnie and Mattie
And fat little May, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABabbcdcXeXefgegfhihAXihdchchbabhbaB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 11101 10010 1001 1011 00110 101101 10110 10110 1101 10110 1101 110101 1001 101101 1011 110101 10010 010101 10010 10110 111010 101100 10110 101101 10110 11010 11010 11110 1001 11010 11101 1001110 1001 110110 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 803
  • Average number of words per stanza: 135
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, half are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).

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