This is an analysis of the poem Jewish Wedding In Bombay that begins with:

Her mother shed a tear or two but wasn't really
crying. It was the thing to do, so she did it...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abca cXbc Xdef Xgghi jhX Xefh bcXk ccjliX ememckb bljm hXhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,3,4,4,6,7,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101011111010 100101011100 0101001001111 101111010 01101011111 0101010101010 10110110110010 11001 1111001111110 1100101010111 110001010101010010 1111111101 11111110101 11010010010111100 10111110101 11100101111 11 1010010001101010 101101110111010 010000101 11011111111 11111011001010 01110010111101 11 100110101111010 11011101111 1001 0101110110110 1001001110011 110100101110101 11011100110101 01111101110000100 11011010101101 11011010101000 1011111011110110 110010101010101010 11010001010110 11101100010011 10001011011111 1101101011010 1100 11101011111 101010101010011 100011101010 011100111001010 101110010101110 11101000111101 010111001111 01011
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, in, it, she are repeated.

    The author used the same words her, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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