This is an analysis of the poem The Old Front Gate that begins with:
W'en daih's chillun in de house,
Dey keep on a-gittin' tall;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdadcefXadedegcgbdXdheXehdfdhgcgXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001 1110101 1011101 1110111 1111111 10111001 1110111 10110101 1010111 1011101 1110111 1011110 0111101 101101 1110101 1011111 1110101 1111111 1110111 1100111 1111101 1111101 1010101 1011011 1111111 1110101 1111101 1010101 0110001 1111101 1110101 1011101 1111111 1010101 10011111 1011111 1111110 1110101 1010101 0111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1286
- Average number of words per stanza: 248
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; dey, you are repeated.
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