This is an analysis of the poem Drop Your Buns Aunt Betty that begins with:
Drop your buns Aunt Betty,
And that package on your back....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD AEFEGAED ABCD AXdhh ABe AEFEGAEXD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,5,3,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 1110111 111110 111101 111110 1111010 1110100 1101010 001100 111110 110101101 1111 111110 1110111 111110 111101 111110 1110101 01111111 011100010101111 1110010110001 111110 1110111 101 111110 1111010 1110100 1101010 001100 111110 110101101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, that, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word drop at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word relax at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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