This is an analysis of the poem The Patient's Sweater that begins with:
A life of its own and a long one is led
By this penguin, with nothing to do with the breast-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba aaXa acca dcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001101101 101001001001 01010001011 11011101001 01001001001 01001001001 110011010110 01001011111 011110110001 110010011011 01101001001 01101001011 01101101101 01101111011 01001011101 10100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, from, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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