This is an analysis of the poem The Whistling Girl that begins with:
Back of my back, they talk of me,
Gabble and honk and hiss;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef XXcX Xaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 11111 10101100 111100 1000100101 110101 111011101 111101 100010111 0100101 110101111 110101 100011101 1100101 10011101 1110010 10111111 101111 110010101 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; them, and are repeated.
The author used the same word better at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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