This is an analysis of the poem Mama I'Ll Sing One For You that begins with:
I've sung my songs on dusty roads and dirty city sidewalks
To sweatin' hard eyed brakemen, in the rail yards I rolled through...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXaXaXaXaXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111011101011 01011100011111 110111010111110 11011111 10111111101010 001011111010111 111101110111011 1011111 111101110111010 111000101110101 1111011011111110 110111111 0111010110101010 1101110110111 10100111011111010 111011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 924
- Average number of words per stanza: 184
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (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; me, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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