This is an analysis of the poem Send Them A 'selfie' that begins with:
Dahddy?
'Was is this with that 'dahddy' business? '...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X abcd ebX fcXc egXgX a cehfeXcX XXa didjjkX cXX XlXbXec lhcfXedXkXegcd dX Xgi hcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,3,4,5,1,8,3,7,3,7,14,2,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 1000110101 11001100101 111000100 10101 110101010 110110 111010 01010110 0101010100 0100 0101010 1110101 11 10010001 011100011100 0010001001 1010110010010 0101 1111110 111110101 01 1 010 110100101001 10110 0100011001 110 111111010010 1011 111000111100010 110 1001 101011010 100011100 01000100 1010001010 1 10 11001 10001 111111110010 10001111101 110010 111111010 001 0101011110 111 1110011 1111 101001010 1101011110 10101110100 11100101101 1010011111 101 10 1110100 1001011 11001 1100001001 111001 10111101 10 01 10101110 11 101001110100 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; i, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 'hood is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase that connects the lines.
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