This is an analysis of the poem The Squirtgun Uncle Maked Me that begins with:
Uncle Sidney, when he wuz here,
Maked me a squirtgun out o' some... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cacXa Xdeed fgffg dhddhXddddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111 101010111 101011011 11011111 010111 11111101 1100101111 1011110111 10110010111 111101 110100111 111110111 111101111 111011101 1010111 110101111 1111111101 111000111 1011111101 111111 111011111 0100100111 110110111 1100101111 1111110 11110101111 1101011101 111110101 1100101101 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; out, an', he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
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