This is an analysis of the poem Mugga Mugga that begins with:

Candidly, I do not hug a
Wish to go to Mugga Mugga;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbccbaXdeXXaXefXeXadffdaXgccg aXeXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011110 10101010 001010101100101 111010010 00101010 010010101000101 10111110 100101010 101010100010101 10010110 10100010 1010101010101100 10001110 10011010 001011101010101 10111010 1010101 101010100010101 1110101 10001110 111010111011111 10101010 11000010 1010001011000101 10101010 10101010 101001101011101 1110110 11101010 101010100010111 10101110 11111010 111110001010111 10100110 10011010 111010101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 716
  • Average number of words per stanza: 127
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mugga, to are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Mugga Mugga;
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