This is an analysis of the poem What Ma Said that begins with:
When Pa came home last night he had a package in his hand,
Now Ma,' said he, 'I've something here which you will say is grand. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXX ccddXX eeffXX aaXXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111010001 11111101110101 01011101010001 10010111111001 110101011111111 1111010101111011 11011100111101 11010111010101 10010101010101 101101110101001 0001001010101011 1111010101111011 10011101010111 110101010100101 01110101111101 01010101111101 110101011101010 1111110111101010 11110101111111 11111101111101 11110100011110 111011101111111 111101111111110 110101001111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', to, 'em, you, for, an' are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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