This is an analysis of the poem So Don'Tchu Bother Me Tonight that begins with:
If you AINT seen the light...
Don'tcha bother me, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBa baa BaA BaCDEX BaA BaEEX BaCDEE BaE BaE BaEXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,6,3,5,6,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 10101 01 1101 01 01011101111 10101 01 11110101001 11101 01 11011101011 10101001111 1111000111 11010110 10101 01 11110101001 11101 01 1111000111 110101101 11111101011100010 11101 01 11011101011 10101001111 1111000111 110101101 110101 01 0111011101 110101 01 0111011101 110101 01 0111011101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
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; you is repeated.
The author used the same words don't, so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word too at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of So Don'Tchu Bother Me Tonight;
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