This is an analysis of the poem Momma Welfare Roll that begins with:
Her arms semaphore fat triangles,
Pudgy hands bunched on layered hips ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabcacaXX dXXXdbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001110 10111101 1110100010 1101 011001010 0111 101001010 01011 10101011 111110110 1010100 1101 1101 100110 10111110 000101011 010 111111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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