This is an analysis of the poem The Rivals that begins with:
Look heah! Is I evah tole you 'bout de curious way I won
Anna Liza? Say, I nevah? Well heah's how de thing wuz done.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb Xc dd ee ff dd gg Xd XX hh Xf ii jj ff XX dd kk XX cc aa XX Xh ff XX bX kk gg ll ff ll Xg ii aX XX ii aa XX ff ff lX ii ee hh mm cc jX Xd Xl ff XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101110100111 101011101110111 111110101010101 0101101101111011 1110101000100101 101010101011111 111111101011101 01000101011110101 111111101111100 111111101011111 1110101111010111 101010101011101 101110101110101 111010101110101 111011101111101 11101110111011 111011101010111 111011101110111 111010111110101 1111101011100101 111111101110111 10101001110101001 1010010101100110 1010100101111101 111110101011101 111110101010111 111111101111101 111011111011101 111001101011101 1111111011100101 101011101111101 1011101011110101 101011101111111 111110110011111 100011101000111 101110111111111 111111111111001 111011101100101 111011101111111 101110001111111 110010101010001 111110101000111 1110101010101100 111011111111101 101110101110101 101110111111101 111110101111101 11111111111001 111011101111111 101010101111101 111011101011111 111010111000111 1110111111100111 1110101011111 111111111010111 111111101110111 111011111111101 1001011100011111 111011101011101 111111111100111 11111010110001 101111101111111 111111001010111 101111101011011 11111111101011 111101101111111 101110101111111 101110101111111 111110101110101 111111111111101 111111111001110 11011001111111010 1010100111111011 11111111011101 101110101010101 1010101010100110 101011001011111 1111101011010011 101011101010101 101011101111101 101111110110101 11101111001101110 111011111010101 111111111000101 11111010111111 101010101010101 11101011110101 1111001011110001 1111111001010111 111111111011001 111011101110111 111111101010001 101111111011001 111110101110110 1010101111101101 1110101111101011 1110110111110111 11101110111001 111111111010101 111110111010111 1111111011111110 111000111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 51
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 102
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, wuz, you, de, me, hee, had, an', dat, dey, we, to, he, like, w'en, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, some, he, how, an', w'en, wuz are repeated.
The author used the same words he, an', w'en 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 ' is repeated).
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- summary of The Rivals;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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