This is an analysis of the poem My Paw Said So that begins with:
Foxes can talk if you know how to listen,
My Paw said so. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBcccB dBdBeeeB dBdBffXfBaBaBbbbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111010 1111 1111110110 1111 1111111101 11101001001 111011010111 1111 1001001111 1111 1101110111 1111 111010001011 11101101001 110011001111 1111 1111011011 1111 111001111001 1111 11001001001 11101011110 01001011001 1111 111111111001 1111 111111001101 1111 101011011011 11101101111 111101001011 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', to, that, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word so at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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