This is an analysis of the poem Dinner-Time that begins with:
Tuggin' at your bottle,
An' it's O, you're mighty sweet!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbXcccXded AfgfahXhXbbb AiaiXgXgebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 1011101 101010 0111011 10111 00100111 10101011 00101011 101010 1111111 1101110 111111 101110 1110011 01101011 0110111 11101110 10101001 11111110 1111101 11101110 1010111 10101110 1110111 101110 1011101 1101010 1110101 1010101 1010101 10101010 1010111 11111110 1110101 10101010 10101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; your, an', you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same word tuggin' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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