This is an analysis of the poem The Turning Of The Babies In The Bed that begins with:
Woman's sho' a cur'ous critter, an' dey ain't no doubtin' dat.
She's a mess o' funny capahs f'om huh slippahs to huh hat....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX cXcc XXdd bbXX XaXc bbXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101111101 101110101110011 111010011111111 1101110101000101 1110010011110101 111110001111110 111110101110101 11111011110111 0010111111110011 111011101110101 11111111111111 111110100010001 1110101101010111 111011111011001 101011101010111 11111011011111110 111011101110110 1111101010111001 111011101111100 111011101010101 111111101011101 111111101010111 111011101111001 1001010100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; to, huh, an', i, de, she, 'em are repeated.
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