This is an analysis of the poem The Other Gum that begins with:
Well Boory, I have read your “grin”,
And listened to your whine;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabXbXbcbc XcXcdedebcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 110011 11011100 011101 11110101 011100 11010101 110111 01010111 111101 01011101 010101 11010011 111001 10110101 010101 11010101 110001 11111001 110101 01011111 111101 01011101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word gum at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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