This is an analysis of the poem Masochistic Baby that begins with:
Oh, ever since my Masochistic Baby went and left me
I got nothin’ to hit but the wall....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbddaXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110111000101111 111001101 1111110 11101010 1111101011 1100111100 111110111 110111000101111 11100110111 1001101 1001111 1001101 1001101 1001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 514
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, nothin, to, but are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nothin are repeated.
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