This is an analysis of the poem A Dost O' Blues that begins with:
I' got no patience with blues at all!
And I ust to kindo talk... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc dededada fXfebddd ghghiXeX XdXdihfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100111 1110101 1001110111 11100101 1010010100 1100111 110101100 1110101 110111100 10101101 1010100111 1111101 1010101101 10101101 10110100101 11010101 1101011011 0100100 010101101 1111010 00101101001 0010101 111010101 1110111 1111100101 1011101 1011101101 1010111 111111110 111111 1011100101 1101111 110100101 11110111 110111100 1011111 11010011 1101101 011111101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they'd, er, and are repeated.
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- summary of A Dost O' Blues;
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