This is an analysis of the poem A Plantation Portrait that begins with:
HAIN'T you see my Mandy Lou,
Is it true?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbbccddbbbbaaeeffffggaaddeeccXXccddaAcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 001 1101101 111 1111101 111 1011101 101 1010101 101 1011101 111 1010101 111 1110101 111 101011 111 111011 0001 1110101 111 1111111 111 1111111 101 1011001 101 1110101 111 1110101 101 1011111 111 1010101 111 1111101 001 1111011 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 892
- Average number of words per stanza: 178
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whaih is repeated.
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