This is an analysis of the poem A Feller's Hat that begins with:

It's funny 'bout a feller's hat-
He can't remember where it's at,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa ddXeffgh ddffiiaa eebbjjgh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 11010101 11110111 01110001 11111101 01011101 11110101 11110101 01011101 01110001 110100110 00010111 10010101 11100101 11011101 11011001 01010101 11001111 01010101 10010101 00011011 01000001 11010111 01110101 01011101 01110101 11110101 11001101 01010111 11010101 01010111 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; he, his, it are repeated.

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

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