This is an analysis of the poem So, Go Tell Your Mama that begins with:
Go tell your mama,
You've got crushes....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCC DEFb gABCGH ABCCC DEFXb gABCGH gABCGH gAcGHXgABcGh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,5,5,6,6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 1110 111111 11 11111 11110 1111 111010 111111 1 11110 1110 11 101 1111 11110 1110 111111 11 11111 11110 1111 111010 111 1111 1 11110 1110 11 101 1111 1 11110 1110 11 101 1111 1 11110 11 101 1111 1 11110 1110 111 101 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 15 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
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.
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- summary of So, Go Tell Your Mama;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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