This is an analysis of the poem When We Were Kids that begins with:
WHEN we wuz kids together, an' we didn't have a care,
In the lazy days of summer, when our feet wuz allus bare,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXX ddXbXXee aaffXagg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101110101 001010101111101 101110101011001 11101111110111 111110011011101 101101111110111 111001111011111 1111101011101010 11110101110111 111011100110101 1110111111111111 111001101011101 111011101010110 111011101111111 111011111101111 111011111011101 111101101111111 1011111011110011 1001011111110001 101001101110111 1110111110011000 111111101110101 111011101111111 101111100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', when, th', t', we, as, and, same, i, not are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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