This is an analysis of the poem Hoodoo Voodoo Lady that begins with:
Yeah hoodoo voodoo lady cast up your voodoo vision
Let me know where did my baby go where did my lovin' baby go...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX ccdcdeXcfXagfXccXXeddghhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101111110 11110110110110101 1011101111111101 1111011110111 111101101110 11111100010110 1111010101010 111110100010110 11111101010 11111101010 11111101110 111010101010110 01010010111011111 1011101101111101 11111110101 10111011100 01 1111110001000 101000011110 1111110101010 11010111110 1110101001010 1110101010101010 11010101010 1110101110010 11101010010111111 11101011010110011 1111010111011101 10111011110110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 730
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; baby, my, voodoo, your, she, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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