This is an analysis of the poem Maymie's Story Of Red Riding Hood that begins with:

W'y, one time wuz a little-weenty dirl,
An' she wuz named Red Riding Hood, 'cause her--... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabcdedfecghhXhXXhiXhXgXa ighjXhXieiXhff ikXdefikdeeidXXhXibeX XehliXgaXe Ejggggmn bXfXgdiXhnh mheXldddXgoX XecchX mfegXn fei feXXigoX XcchX cXfXgXjiedXXX dXXXX EXX dXXa XfljhXeb fbbXeXXXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,14,21,10,8,11,12,6,6,3,8,5,13,5,3,4,8,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111110100 011100101110 11110011011 11111100111 0111001101 1011010101 11010100010 1111011101 1101101110 1011000101 0111011101 1101110111 01110111001 01111011010 1101110111 01010111110 0111101111 0111111010111 10110111001 11011101101 11011111111 1101000110 1101010011 1101110010 110100 1111 10110111001 1011011101 1111110111 11110101011 1111011111 0101011110 1110101111 1101010111 1111010111 1101010101 1101111111 1101111100 0101110 111 110100111001 1101110010 1111111011 0011111101 1101110111 1111011111 0111011101 1111010101 100111101 1101111101 1100010101 11110101011 0101011111 0101011100 1111011111 011111110 0111001101 1111010101 1111010111 1111010010 1111110111 1111110111 11011111011 0111000111 1101010111 11110111110 1001010011 1101111100 11110101101 1111 11101 1111011111 1101111101 1110100111 01011100111 1111000101 1111110101 110101 1111 1111111101 110110111110 0110011111 1111110111 1111110111 1111110111 1111001111 1100100011 1101111101 1101 111011 1001011101 1111111101 11111110110 1101111001 11001111111 1111011011 11011111111 10110111110 0111101111 1010110110 11011 10110 1100101101 1111110111 10110111011 0111010111 111111 11111 1101110101 1110111101 1111110111 1101111101 1111011101 1101011111 0101110101 111011 1101 1101101101 1111011111 11010111110 1101011111 1011011111 1010110110 11011 11111 1111110111 10110111011 0111010111 111111 1111 0010010111 1001110111 010110101110 01110110111 0111110010 1011011111 1101111101 1010111101 11010010111 1101111111 0111111100 0011011 111 1101011111 11111111100 10110111110 10010 11101 1111111011 111111 1111 11110011110 1100111111 1111110 111 11101101 1101011111 1101001101 1101111101 1101111111 01001111101 11111 1011 11001111011 0111111111 1111111100 1011110111 110110111111 1001011111 11100110110 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 172
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, she, day, it, an', 'em, to, ', say, wolf, says, in, dran'ma, nen, he, all, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', her, she are repeated.

    The author used the same word an' 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 her, say, she are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.

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