This is an analysis of the poem When Malindy Sings that begins with:
G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy--
Put dat music book away;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXddD XeXeafcf XgeghdbD XgaXXdgD XXiXXdXD XXdXXdXD dghgdjaj hjdXXdcd biXiedfXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 1110101 10101110 1110111 1111101 1011111 10100011 11001 11101010 1010111 11101110 1010111 11111110 11010111 11101110 11110101 10111010 1010111 11111110 1011001 11110010 1111111 11111011 11001 11101100 111101 11111010 1111111 110111010 1011111 1111111 11001 10111010 1010101 101110010 0111110 10101011 1110101 11110010 11001 11111110 100100111 10101110 1010101 1110100100 1000111 11111010 11001 11111010 1010101 11111110 1110111 10101110 1011101 11101010 0010101 11101010 0110001 11101010 1110001 011001100 1010111 11111010 11001 10111011 10111011 11101010 1010001 11101110 1010101 111101 1100 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, you, dat are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sings at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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