This is an analysis of the poem Wadin' In De Crick that begins with:

DAYS git wa'm and wa'mah,
School gits mighty dull,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcXXXdedecXCeXbXXcXCXfXfXcXXXfafXcXCXXXXacXC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 11101 111110 11100 101110 11101 101010 11001 101010 10101 111010 10111 101110 11011 111111 10001 111110 10111 111111 10101 111010 11101 101110 10001 101010 10001 101110 10111 101010 11111 101111 10001 101110 11111 111110 10101 111110 11101 111011 10001 111101 111001 10101 11111 111110 11111 111110 10001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 224
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; yo' is repeated.

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