This is an analysis of When A Feller's Itching To Be Spanked by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
W'EN us fellers stomp around, makin' lots o' noise,
Gramma says, 'There's certain times comes to little boys…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXBBXaaccbBXXcbXBXBccddbBBeeccbBB
- Stanza lengths: 35,
- Metre: 111010110111 1011010110101 1110101011001 11101010101 1111111 0010111 101010101 101011111111 101110110111 101011110111 10111001111 1011111 0010111 1011100010 1010101110101 101011100101 111110010101 111110101110 1111111 00101110 101010001 1110101010101 111010110111 011011110111 10100101111 1110111 0010111 101010001 111110010111 101111110101 111011101011 11101010111 11111011 0010111 101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 35
Repeated words/phrases
o', you, to
Anaphora
w'en
Epiphora
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