This is an analysis of the poem Answering The Grumblers that begins with:
When night time comes an' I can go
Back to the folks who love me so, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbbcc dddXaa eedddX ffggbb ffhhAA ggaadXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 10011111 11011101 11110111 11010101 11010101 11011111 11010111 01110100 01111100 11111101 11010111 11010100 01000111 110001111 11110111 11111101 101111101 10110101 11010011 11110101 11111011 11011101 11111111 11010100 11010011 11010111 11010101 11111111 10011111 01111101 01110101 01010101 11111011 11001101 110010011 1
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; an', i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', i, to are repeated.
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