This is an analysis of the poem Song (Is It Dirty) that begins with:
Is it dirty
does it look dirty...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaA aAB XaX AXX XaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0010 10110 111100010 101110 111100010 11010111 1110100101100 110100110110 10101010001001 111100010 1110011111 110111 1110101111 00100111001100 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, dirty, you, that's are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dirty is repeated).
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