This is an analysis of the poem Time To Tinker 'Roun'! that begins with:

Summah 's nice, wif sun a-shinin',
Spring is good wif greens and grass,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXX XcXcXbXX aabaXbXX XXXXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111010 01001111 111111110 1110101 10110010 1010101 01011010 11110101 111010110 1110101 101011110 1110111 10111111 1010101 1111111110 11110101 11111110 1010111 11111110 1011101 111011110 1110111 11111110 11110101 111101011 11110101 111101110 0110101 110100110 1010111 11110110 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, you, 's, dey are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.

    The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Time To Tinker 'Roun'!;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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