This is an analysis of the poem Yowzah that begins with:
Well it wasn't too very long ago you know some folks walked with a hi-dee-ho
And other folks walked around kind of low...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBbbbXXcBXXcXcbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101011111100111 1101101101 10101111101 0110010110111100101001 111001001001 111101111101 111111001010 1011010101010 101101111010 10101111101 111111001010101101011100 10110101011001110101110 0111001110 011110000111010 01110101110011001111110 1101111101 01001001011100010100 1111111111111 111110111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1103
- Average number of words per stanza: 223
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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; and, little, they, lot, less, more are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sayin' connects the lines.
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- summary of Yowzah;
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- history of its creation;
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