This is an analysis of the poem Bagpipe Music that begins with:
It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa bcdd Xd cbcc ccXX Xd eeff gg Xhha XXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,4,4,2,4,2,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101000011010 1110010110101010 1101101011111010 1111010111101010 10101011010010 10101011100010 1011101101110 1011110111110 0110101011100 11100110101010010 100101011010010 10101011001010 0111100011110 11100111010101010 011111000101110 1001010111111110 1011010111010100 1001110001010100000 01101010011010 11100101101011010 1010101101010 101011011101010 01011101101010 101010011101010 0110101011010 111001001111110 011010100110100 0110101001010100 011010010110010 1111110011111010 0111101011110 11101010101010 01010101100101010 101101011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, of, its, for, it, it's, go, no, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, it's are repeated.
The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Bagpipe Music;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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