This is an analysis of the poem You'Ve Got Jokes, Huh? that begins with:
If I had my druthers...
And not uncommonly expressed by others, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXde X fcG XX Xfchidf X g X afggicfa X gag X ejf hXX kfahbe bXX keaff XX X kX gh XXXjeceGcgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,3,2,7,1,1,1,8,1,3,1,3,3,6,3,5,2,1,2,2,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110 11110001110 11101001 01010011 101000010110001 01010000111 11010111 1111 01001100111 110010 011011101 1 1111111 110001010 01010110111 1101010010 101111011 0010101101 110110101011 0110111100 1010 1111100111 101 101001010 0101110100001 111011 1101010101 1010011111010 101101011 011011 0100101 11110110100101 1011001110001 11010011110111 111110010101 11110100010110 1111 1111111010 001011110010 1110100010 101 110101000 01 1 1010101010101 101101 011 0101101001 1110001 111001100100 10101001000 1 1101 101 01001101 111011011 1 1111011001 1 11 1100011 111 111101111110 1 11111 110 011011 001001101 101111 011011101 1111010110 0001101 11 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to, i are repeated.
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