This is an analysis of the poem The Conversation Book that begins with:
I 'ave a conversation book, I brought it out from 'ome;
It tells the French for knife and fork, an' likewise brush an' comb;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb bbcc ddee ccXX eXee XXffXeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101110101 01011111111111 01110101010101 1101010110101 11111010111101 1111101110100101 01010101110011 11010101010111 11010111110001 111010101110111 01011101111101 11110111101001 11010101010001 11010111110111 11011101110101 111010111110011 1111010110101 1111000111100 1111010111101 1101010111111 1111111111111 11010101011001 1001110111111001 111111101110111 111101111110101 111010101110101 11110101110101 011010101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', it, to, 'ow, in, them, o', things, i, 'e, never are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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