This is an analysis of the poem Floobie Doobie Doo that begins with:
As I walk down to Bishop Street I met a girl who smiled so sweet
Now she was young and pretty too...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaBb XbbXbb abbcbbaaBb Xbbcbddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010111011111 11111101 11011100110111 101111101011110111 01010101 11011011110111 01111101011110111 11011001 110110110110111 11111011111011001100 111101101 1110101110110111 111011101110111101 1101101111 1111011001110111 0111011111010111 11110110101 1110100110110111 1011111101 011101110111 01010101 111100110110111 11111110111111111 11111111 11010111110111 1101010111010111 110010111 11110101101 1111110101101 1111110101101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, thing, to, it, no, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word well at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thing is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word doo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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