This is an analysis of the poem A Guide For Poits that begins with:
I ain't no verse-'og. When I busts in song
An' fills the air wiv choonful melerdy,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab caca dede bdbd fXff agag XgXg hdhd ggXX dddd Xiiiii dedeed bbibib ggjgjj ggaaffhh kkhh ghgX llgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,6,6,6,8,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 1101110100 1111010101 1101010011 11111101110 0100010111 11011101010 1101111111 1101011101 1101011101 1101110101 110110101 1101001101 1101110111 0111110101 1101010101 1011111101 11111101110 0101010101 0110010111 1111011111 1111111111 1111011111 111110011 1111011110 0110111101 1111011010 0110010101 111101110 1101110101 11001110101 1001110101 1111101001 110111011 1101010101 1110011101 1101010101 0101010101 1011011111 1011010101 1101111101 1111010101 0111011101 0111 1011010111 1101010101 11001110101 1111110101 1101100101 1101110101 1111110101 1111011101 0111011101 1101010011 1101110111 1110110101 1001110111 0111010111 0101110101 1111010111 1101011101 1111011101 1111110101 1000110101 0111110111 1111010111 1101110101 0111 0110010111 0101010111 0101001101 1110 1101011111 0101010001 1101010111 1111110101 1111110011 1111111101 0101111001 1100101101 0101001111 1101011001 0100011101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, no, an', it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same words i'd, an' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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