This is an analysis of the poem Reluctance that begins with:
Will I have some mo' dat pie?
No, ma'am, thank-ee, dat is--I--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaAbbbA XXAccca bbAdXXA eeAfffA XXAXXXAXdaAeeea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111111 1111101 101101 1111100 11111111 1110111 101101 1111101 1010111 101101 11111 11110010 11110101 11011101 1110111 11111111 101101 11111010 11111110 1111111 101101 1011111 1111111 101101 1111111 11111101 1011101 101101 1111101 1010101 101101 11110110 11110101 1111111 101101 11111110 11110111 101101 1010101 11110101 111111101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; dat, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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