This is an analysis of the poem Aunt Sally Speaks that begins with:
Who have been educated out of naive responses,
The hoodoo of love, the cinderella of class...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbX Xbab cdXc aaXe Xeaa cXbc ebab aXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101011010 010010101001 101101110111 0110100 0111010100101000 1111010100 10101010111 11010111 10010010010011 10111001110 111100101110 10111 1101001010011 101000110001 011001011010 11001 1111011111 11011110101 1001001111101 11001001 10010100101 11111101010 01010001011101 1100010 11010100101 110110111110 001100101011 1011010 11110110100 100100100100 1101011100010 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Aunt Sally Speaks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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