This is an analysis of the poem Freakin’ At The Freaker’s Ball that begins with:
Come on, baby, grease your lips,
Put on your hat, and shake your hips. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccB ddXXXXbB dddbeeXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 11111111 11010111 0100101 1110111 111000101 11010101 1010101 10111110010 10111010 0100010101001 101111111 1100010 101100010 1011101 1010101 1111110110 100101010 11101010 1100101 1111101 1111111 110101111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; your, and, with, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ball at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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