This is an analysis of the poem Scamp that begins with:
AIN'T it nice to have a mammy
W'en you kin' o' tiahed out...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcXddeXXcaXaXXbXaaebXXfXfXXXXggeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1111101 10100010 1010101 11111010 1111101 10111010 1010101 1111 1111 110101 111110101 110101 11111110 1111101 10101010 1111111 11111110 1011001 1111111 1111111 0111 1111 110111 111110111 110101 11111010 1111101 1111110 0011011 11111110 1111101 11111111 10101011 1111 1111 111101 111001101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1137
- Average number of words per stanza: 230
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; an', yo' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', she are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of Scamp;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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