This is an analysis of the poem Trouble In De Kitchen that begins with:
DEY was oncet a awful quoil 'twixt de skillet an' de pot;
De pot was des a-bilin' an' de skillet sho' was hot. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXXcXXXXccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111001011010101 01110101010111 11110101111101 101111111011001 011101010110001 101011101111111 1110111101110101 111000101111111 11101101010101010 1010101001011001 10111101010010 101011100010101 111111011010101 110010101111101 1011110111111 111011101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 965
- Average number of words per stanza: 196
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, dey, an', he, dat are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
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