This is an analysis of the poem Dirty Ol’ Me that begins with:
Well I was sittin' up in my crane leftin' boulders in the rain
Can't get promoted no matter what I do...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbbbcXc daXaaaaecfc fdgdafXbacXc ggXXeXgaaXchgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,12,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010111010001 11010110111 1101111011111001 1111111100111 11101111101 1110110011111 11111111 10101101001111110111 11011101101101 1101111011 11111011011001 111111101111 111111011110101 1101000101 111111101011111 1110100110110 10101101010110 01010110010 101110100111 1010111010100010 11110111011 1101010110111010 01011000111 10111011111101 101011011 1010110101011010 110100101010 101100110010 10111010001 111101010010100100101001001010 101010101010101100110101 1010100011101000 1011011101011 111111110111101010 11110111110101101101 110111010110 111010010011111011 10111101001111110 0101011101 1011111110111 110110010101101011 11111011110111 1110110111101010 101100011011 111010101 11010011100111 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; up, he, let, just, go, but, and, his, of, i'm, operation, serious, i, mean, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines go, in, mean are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Dirty Ol’ Me;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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