This is an analysis of the poem Say Goodbye When Your Chum Is Married that begins with:
Now this is a rhyme that might well be carried
Gummed in your hat till the end of things:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccdcdcefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001111010 101110101 101111010 10110111 101011111 110101101 11111001011 111100111 101110010 11111101 1111011110 010101111 101111110 010110111 11111011110 111000111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 682
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word say is repeated.
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