This is an analysis of the poem De Way T'Ings Come that begins with:
De way t'ings come, hit seems to me,
Is des' one monst'ous mystery;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccccaa dXeeffXX XXccXXXX bXddccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 01110100 01110101 11111111 11010101 01110101 01110101 11010111 111110111 11110011 11110111 111100101 11111101 10010101 11110101 111011011 111111101 11110110 11010100 11101111 111111001 11010101 111111111 01011011 011101010 111110111 11101011101 11110101 01011111 01010111 11011101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you, i, de, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, an', i are repeated.
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