This is an analysis of the poem The Alternative - 1927 that begins with:

Betty Yack, of Mittyack, charming was and young;
But Betty Yack of Mittyack, had a bitter tongue.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb aaXX ccbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010111 110101010101 111001111111111 001001000010101 101010111110 10101010111010 111011010101011 1110101011101010 1010100110101 11000100011101 101010101110101 1101010111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The author used the same word betty at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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