This is an analysis of the poem A Plea that begins with:
Treat me nice, Miss Mandy Jane,
Treat me nice....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBcccB dBdBeeXb XeXefffB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 111 11111011 111 1110101 1011101 1111101 111 11111101 111 1111101 111 1010101 1110101 1010111 101 1011101 101 1010101 11 1110111 1101101 1111111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; treat, me, nice, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word treat is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word nice at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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