This is an analysis of the poem Many Muddied Sluggers Live With Something To Prove that begins with:
Slime backs,
Who are slime backs......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABA AABA cAB CAB AABA AABA CAB XAB XABXAABa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 1111 011 11 11 1111 011 11 10110101 11111 101 1110101 11111 101 11 1111 011 11 11 1111 011 11 1110101 111 101 1101010101001 111 101 110101010101 111 101 11 1111 011 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; slime, backs are repeated.
The author used the same word slime at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines backs is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words backs, back at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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