This is an analysis of the poem Mary Called Him 'Mister' that begins with:
They'd parted but a year before—she never thought he’d come,
She stammer’d, blushed, held out her hand, and called him ‘Mister Gum.’... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccDD eeff gghh ggff XccDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101110111 11011101111101 11111101110101 11010111111101 11010101111101 11000101111101 110101011100101 110111010100101 11110101010111 11110110110101 11011101111101 11010010111111 11010100010111 11110111011101 11011101110101 11010101111011 11111111110101 11110110111101 11011101011101 11010101111111 11010101111101 11110101111101 110101011100101 110111010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, he, they, but, d, and are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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