This is an analysis of the poem Pa And The Monthly Bills that begins with:
When Ma gets out the monthly bills and sets them all in front of Dad,
She makes us children run away because she knows he may get mad;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbX ccbdddX eecXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010111010101 1111010101111111 1111011111101111 1101010111010101 11110101111101011 1111110111010100 1110010111011111 1101011001111101 111101111101011 1 1111010101110101 11110101110010101 1101011110111000 1111011111011101 1101111111011101 101111011010100101 11011101010101010 1111111111010101 0111110101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 420
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, and, an', he, to are repeated.
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