This is an analysis of the poem Limitations that begins with:
EF you's only got de powah fe' to blow a little whistle,
Keep ermong de people wid de whistles....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXXaXXXccXXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101010101010 1100101010 11111110111011010 0011101110 11101011111 010011010111 1111101011101010 101010101 1010101011101010 101011111 10101010111 110101011111 1111101010111010 111010101 101010111111101 111110001 110010111010 011101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 922
- Average number of words per stanza: 186
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, you are repeated.
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