This is an analysis of the poem An Uncle that begins with:
BEIN' uncle to the kids,
Laughin' lips an' drowsy lids...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXXbb bXccddee aabbeeffXffddbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001 1011101 1011101 1111101 1011101 1011101 11110111 1110101 1111101 1110100 1010101 1010101 1110001 1111101 0011111 1010101 0110110 1110101 0010111 1011111 1110111 1011101 1011101 1001101 1001101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1011111 1010101 1011101 0010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; an' is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of An Uncle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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