This is an analysis of the poem The Real Question that begins with:
Folks is talkin' 'bout de money, 'bout de silvah an' de gold;
All de time de season 's changin' an' de days is gittin' cold....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101010101 1010101101010101 1111010101011101 10111010111111111 1111110101010101 101011101110001 1110001010111010 0011101110111100 111111101110101 111110101110101 111011101010011 10101110011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, 's, an', 'bout, dat are repeated.
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