This is an analysis of the poem When The Minister Calls that begins with:
When The Minister Calls
My Paw says that it used to be,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaAbbccddaA eebbXabbaa ddffccccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 11110100 0100100111 1111101111 1111101111 111110111 1111011101 10101011111 1110101101 1010010100 0100100111 1110100101 111110101 1110101111 011011111 110010011 1110100101 11111011001 1010101101 111111111 101110111 1100101111 1011101101 111101111 1110111111 1111101101 1010111100 111111101 0010011101 1011101110 0101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word tea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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