This is an analysis of the poem The Way It Wuz that begins with:
Las' July--an', I persume
'Bout as hot... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaccdedXebF XgfghhXfbF XiiXjja XakkfBF XigXelkelkaaaXaffeeBF fkhkhjjjhXfjhBF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,10,7,7,21,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110 111 1011101 111 1111101 1011110 1010111 10111010 1111101 1010111 10100010 0110101100 11110 110101 1111101 11101 111100 10111 1010101 10101 11101 1110101100 11110 111110 10101 1110010 111110 11111 101001 11101 1011101 1110111 11110111 01011101 11010101 1110101100 11110 11010110 11101 101101 101100 11101 1101 1111 1011101 110001101 1111 0101 1111111 1010101 10101 11111111 11111110 11110111 1110101 1101 1110101100 11110 1111 01001 1111 0101 1111111 11111000 1111111 111001 1111101 0110111 11101111 1110111 1011101 1110101100 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; an' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word is at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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