This is an analysis of the poem Curiosity that begins with:
MAMMY'S in de kitchen, an' de do' is shet;
All de pickaninnies climb an' tug an' sweat,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXbbccccXXbbXXddbbbbeeccffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001010101 10100011111 10001010111 10110111111 111010111010 101100011010 11101110111 11101011110 10101011111 10100010101 11111110100 111011111001 11101010101 111110101 11101111111 10101010110 11111011101 10101010110 11101010111 11101011101 10101010101 11111001101 11111111111 11101011110 10001011111 11001011101 11101011101 11101011111 10101010111 11111011001 10011011101 11101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1469
- Average number of words per stanza: 290
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; de, an', cookin', ', we, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Curiosity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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