This is an analysis of the poem Slovenly Betsy that begins with:
Betsy would never wash herself
When from her bed she rose,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacadaefbfXefX gghgfbbbXfbf Xbhdhcece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 100111 11110111 110101 01011111 110111 01010110 010101 01111101 110101 11010001 110111 01111101 110111 11010111 1100101 11010101 110101 11100100 111111 11011101 011101 010101110 100101 10011101 111101 11110001 101111 11011101 100111 01110110 1111101 11100111 111111 11011110 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, her, betsy, and are repeated.
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