This is an analysis of Ma Mammy's Done Me In: A New Theme Song by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

MA-A-AMMY! Ma-a-ammy!
The sun's gone east…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaaaXXbcXcXbbX c a X XdddXXX X
  • Stanza lengths: 14,1,1,1,7,1,
  • Metre: 10101010 0111 11111 10110111 10101010 11110111010 11110 0011101 11110 0101111 10101010 11100001 1110100 111010 11101011011011011100101111010111011111111110111111011111011010101101 01101000011111010111000101111001101001001011011111101 11011011011011001101110111100101 10101010 11111 10111 1111111101 1011010 110110011000 101 1101110101111010100101101010101000
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

you, we, ole, an', say, ma, in, that