This is an analysis of the poem Put My Name On Your List that begins with:
Put my name on your list.
Because I'm willing and able....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABacde AFBFebd aXcgc aFBcXFfcXHXbacXHgcXXcXA gcXXcXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,5,23,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 01010110 11010101 11 01100 1010110 111111 11010001 01010110 1111101 0 11110101 11101 11010101 11101010 1 10111011 011 1111111 11010001 01010110 1 0010101011 1111101 1011101 1 0010101011 11111001 11 101110111 00111 1 0010101011 11111001 1 1 0010101011 0010101011 1 0010101011 1110101 1 1 0010101011 0010101011 1 0010101011 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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 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; to, and, with, bub, hub, bubba, bee, baybee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
The author used the same word put 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 baybee is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word lot at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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