This is an analysis of the poem Old Bob that begins with:
I guess folks think I'm mighty dumb
Since Jack and Jim and Joe...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeee ececff ghghee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 111111 11010101 111101 11010101 111101 11111111 111111 11111111 011101 01011111 111111 11110101 110111 01010011 111111 11010001 110101 11110101 111111 11111111 110011 01011101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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