This is an analysis of the poem Poem In The American Manner that begins with:

I dunno yer highfalutin' words, but here's th' way it seems
When I'm peekin' out th' winder o' my little House o Dreams;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXaaddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 101110001111101 101011101110111 101010111110101 111111101001001 111010101110111 101110101101010 001010101010101 1010111111101010 101011111111101 111111101111101 111011111111101 111011111110001 101111111111111 001001111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 892
  • Average number of words per stanza: 178
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', its, fer, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.

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