This is an analysis of the poem If I Were Tickled By The Rub Of Love that begins with:
If I were tickled by the rub of love,
A rooking girl who stole me for her side,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXcbc dXedfge dhaXaha ijdidjd hkfhfkf dglklgl agfXede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010101 0101111101 1101101101 0011010101 1101010011 1111010101 1011001 1001111101 1101110001 0101010101 0101110001 0101010101 1111010101 101101 10011111010 1101011111 11110100001 01010101010 0101010111 1111010001 101101 0101010101 1101111101 0111110101 1101101001 1111110101 0101111101 110101 0101010111 1001110001 1101011101 11111100011 1101010001 1111010111 100101 11010101110 0101110101 0111010101 11010110010 1111010001 0101010101 100101 1101110101 1111010001 1101110101 0101110101 1101110011 1101010110 101100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words shall, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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