This is an analysis of the poem Cook that begins with:
Slushy's a Dutchman, he's a crackerjack at music,
He can play the ocarina,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa bbb Xbb XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010101110 11101000 10100010 1010111011101011 11011101110111 01011101011111 111110101010101 01011101011111 01010100111010111 101010100011101 0110101000101010 110101000101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he's, his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
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