This is an analysis of the poem A Pat On The Back that begins with:
A PAT on the back is a wonderful thing,
It gives a man courage to whistle and sing; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdX eeccccdX ffccggXX aaddhhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01101001001 01011001011 11001001101 01101111001 01011011011 11011111011 11101110011 11101111111 01101001011 111101111101 01111011011 1110011101001 1101101100010 1101010110110 10011101001 101011101111 101101111111 11011111011 111111011011 01001111111 101011101001 01010101111 011011011011 101111111011 101101001001 01001011001 11101011111 11111011011 101111011011 111011101001 0110110110101 11111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 404
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, you, and, to, that are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, ' are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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