This is an analysis of the poem Sit Around The House To Sing A Blues Or Two that begins with:
All you think about is apple strudel.
And sit around the house to sing a blues or two....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XABC XABC dd Xee XXABXC XXABXCAA XXAAAAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,3,6,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101010 110101010111 0101010010 111101010101 1110101010 110101010111 0101010010 111101010101 11010111001 10101110101 01010101001 111100101 1010100010011 1110101010 1 110101010111 0101010010 1 111101010101 1110101010 1 110101010111 0101010010 1 111101010101 010101110111 1010101101 1110101010 1 110101010111 010101110111 1010101101 1010101101 1010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hoping is repeated.
The author used the same word all 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 untrue is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words soup, untrue at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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