This is an analysis of the poem One Day Ali Told His Mom that begins with:
The little Ali,
The spoiled Ali,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab ccdb ef gghb ffccadcd eddd difaa dfd ccaXg cajjkig flgc ecd mdc jjln b eg lbfe AAXkhkfo plag oXcbbbch amndddlka occe AaeGe Aheepa Ggaolemf beaio Aoggfc bgcbbb Af ec aeh Aooq algAnq Apl onencdbn Alnnn Ahkeeee eeeaa decd edd an jnpq Xk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,4,8,4,5,3,5,7,4,3,3,4,1,2,4,8,4,8,9,4,5,6,8,5,6,6,2,2,3,4,6,3,8,5,7,5,4,3,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010 0110 11100 10111 1101 00101 111 1111 1110 1111 11010101 010101 111 111 01111 010101 101011 01101 1100 11110 00101 10101 0110 1111 1111 1101 01111 10101 0111111011 0111011010 011110 0110101001001 0110100101 01101100101 11001 01011 01110 1101011001 01101 111101011 0111011110 11110110 11010110 11111 10111 11101 10101101 00101011 01101 01101 0111010001 011010001 0110101011 011101101 111101101 101010001 101001010 001111010 1111101 11101 10101100 10101010 1100100101 11001001 11110010 110101011 01101 11010 11010 11011 1111101 001101010011 0111 110101010 1111 10101 10110 1111011110 010111 1001 1011111 01111 01111 0011111 1111 0010101 10111 11010 1011 10101 10101 11001 11010 10010 1010 10010 1111 1111 11111 11111 11010 1110 1111 10101 11101 11010 11101 11101 1111 10101 11111110 10101 11111 1010 10101 01101 11011 101 11101 10101 1010 1010 1101 00101 11010 110101 1101011010101 11011111 1101101010100 1101111001111 0101010111110 01010101 011111101 11101 11101 110100101 11010 1111 01011101 1010110000101 0111111010 011010111 11101 11010 1111 111 10010 11010 11101 110101 01110 1111 10010 11010 11011 10011 11101 00111 00111 10111 01001 01010 01001 1011 01110 01110 10111 01111 10111 11010 11101 00101 1111 10101 11101 11101 111 110 10110 1100 1110 10010100101 11111 1110 111 1101 10101 010101111 1010 111 10110 111 01101 10010 01010100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 47
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 204
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, had, like, it, looked, that, you, be, don, t, no, fish, about, and, they, dream are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, what, like, it, he, hey, don, with, you, fish, they, whoever, to are repeated.
The author used the same words it, the, hey at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ali, fish, was are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words fish, water at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fish connects the lines.
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