This is an analysis of the poem A Background In Music that begins with:
music city u.s.a. it was, nothing doing without a song,
and not just twangy tunes that rhyme southern drawls...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdXXaeXdXdcedXXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101110110100101 11110111101 001110111101 011010110101011 101111010001 1010100010101011 01010100100101010 101010001110010 01000110110111 0101100011110101 101001001110001 101100010100100 011101111111 10111010001111 100101001000001 1011111001001 11100011111011 01011011011111 10101010111101111 00100101010111 11001111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1360
- Average number of words per stanza: 210
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; music, of, mack, and, in, to are repeated.
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