This is an analysis of the poem If You Ain'T Practicing that begins with:
You can not spit watermelon seeds
Across the street....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 0101 10111001101 001101111 11101101 0111000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of If You Ain'T Practicing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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