This is an analysis of the poem Boy And His Stomach that begins with:
What's the matter with you- ain't I always been your friend?
Ain't I been a pardner to you? All my pennies don't I spend...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddee ffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010011111011 110010011110111 01011111111101 11010101110111 111010011011111 01011101110101 11111101011101 11111101110111 11010011110111 11111101111101 111010101010111 11110101110111 100101111110111 11110111011111 01010101010101 0110101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, an' are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ache at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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