This is an analysis of the poem O Aye My Wife She Dang Me that begins with:
Chorus—O aye my wife she dang me,
An' aft my wife she bang'd me,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa bXbXA bcbcA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101111111 1111111 011010100 11111011 11111111 1111110 11010101 1100100 11111 1110101 1111111 11111101 0111101 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
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