This is an analysis of the poem My Succotash Is So Bad that begins with:
My succotash is so bad!
It's the best you'll ever have....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCA ABCA dXXefe fa dedgdXheia gdXifjk ABCA ABCACA k XX fjXXhXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,2,10,7,4,6,1,2,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100011 0011101 1111111111 01 1100011 0011101 1111111111 01 1011 1100101 111 1011010 011001 0101010110 1010100 111001010 1 011101110 1101011 1011 100010 11100 1010010011 11110 100101110 11110001010 1 101111101 1010101 10001 100101 10110010 11 1100011 0011101 1111111111 01 1100011 0011101 1111111111 01 1111111111 01 01 11001001 0110 1 01000100100 101011 0111100 11010010111 011101010000 0100100100110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; co is repeated.
The author used the same word my 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 bad is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bad at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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