This is an analysis of the poem Funk that begins with:
When your marrer bone seems 'oller,
And you're glad you ain't no taller,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXbccdeed XXeaaeXXdeed ccfccfggdeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 11111110 11101011101 11111010 11101010 11111000101 11111010 11100010 11101011101 1111110 1111010 111000111 011110 10111010 0111110101 10111010 11111110 10101011101 10101100 11101100 00101010111 11111010 11101110 111100111 1111110 11101010 1100010001 1111010 1111010 1101010101 101101 1001101 1101010101 010011 110100 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, you're, funk are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word funk at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Funk;
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