This is an analysis of the poem Possession that begins with:
Whose little lady is you, chile,
Whose little gal is you?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdcdc ebfbbghg iXXXXjeX chfhXjXj aigiaXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100110 110101 101110111 10110101 1011101 1110111 1110101 11101111 10010101 111111 1111010111 1010101 1011101 1111111 1011111 0111101 1111011111 1110111 111000101 101111 1000101 1000101 1110101 0010111 110100101 110111 101100111 1110101 1011111 1011111 1111101 1110101 1010101110 101111 1110101111 10101011 11101110 1111101 10110111 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; yo', i, de, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, den, stumble are repeated.
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- summary of Possession;
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