This is an analysis of the poem Minerva Jones that begins with:

I am Minerva, the village poetess,
Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXXXXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001010 101111011001 111010111101 1101110010 101100101 11101101010 1110011010011 111010110000101 01110010110 110000101011 110111 1100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 500
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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