This is an analysis of the poem Tacky Lacking Couth that begins with:
Why are you making this song so sad?
It is a happy tune......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABA ABA CADE CAX CADE CAX ABA ABA CADE CAX AX CADE CAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,3,4,3,3,3,4,3,2,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100111 000101 111011 111100111 000101 111011 1111100 111 01011010 1101110 1111100 111 110101 1111100 111 01011010 1101110 1111100 111 110101 111100111 000101 111011 111100111 000101 111011 1111100 111 01011010 1101110 1111100 111 110101 111 110101 1111100 111 01011010 1101110 1111100 111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; making, and are repeated.
The author used the same words why, don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words mad, couth at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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