This is an analysis of the poem Mad About Music that begins with:
I'm mad about music,
As mad as can be;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXbX XXcc XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110 11110 111110 11011 010110 01011 111100 01010 010110 11100 110110 011110 0101101 10110 1010110 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; i'm, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'm is repeated.
The author used the same word i'm at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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