This is an analysis of the poem Andy Veto that begins with:
Andy Veto never slept a wink last night;
Darkeys, he's your Moses!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBcccb deXb ababcccb aBabfffb XBdbeeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010111 101110 10101110111 101110 11111110111 11101111111 110101011111 1101110 111001 1110101010 111110100101 11010110 10101010101 101110 11101010111 1101110 100111100111 1111111001011 11010010000111 1101110 10101110111 101110 10101010111 1101110 00101011011 10101010111 010101010101 1101110 101000101100010 101110 11101011101 0101110 10101011101 11101011101 11000001011101 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, know, come, moses, his, andy are repeated.
The author used the same word andy 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 know is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word moses 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 moses connects the lines.
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