This is an analysis of the poem Ma An' Me that begins with:
There've been times we'd disagree
Somethin' awful, Ma an' me; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaa cceeffggaa ccccbbhhaa aaeeiieeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001 1010111 1111101 1001111 1110101 1011101 1010101 1111011 1101111 1111111 11100101 1010011 1011111 1011111 101100011 1011111 1010111 1111111 1010111 1111111 1111101 1001111 1110101 1110001 1110101 1010101 1111111 1110011 1010111 1110111 1110101 1010101 1010100 1010111 1011100 1100101 1110101 1111111 1111110 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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