This is an analysis of the poem Testing The Bomb that begins with:
Oh they're testing the bomb as I'm singing this song
They say not to worry cause nothing can go wrong...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111001101001 111010110111 11001101001 1110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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