This is an analysis of the poem Take Them Away! They'Ll Drive Me Crazy that begins with:
Riding in the Park, or down town shopping
At the Matinee, or singing in the choir... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XBAB XBAB bcdc cbdb XeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000111110 101011100010 10101001010 111111101 111111111 111011001 1100111110 101010101010101 111111111 111011001 1100111110 101010101010101 1110101010 1011111100 1110111110 101110101 101011111111 11111010101 101011111111 101010011 10011111110 10111011101 1011101010 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; i, they, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word girls at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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