This is an analysis of the poem Adventures Of Isabel that begins with:

Isabel met an enormous bear,
Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccDDeeffggggDDhhiigXggDDjjhhkkllDDXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110101 101101101 01110011100 01111101100 0111011011 111011111 1011011010 101101110 11011110011 11011001011 10011111 101101011 010111110 010101010 111010111 111001101 1011011010 101101110 1111111110 11101001110 1011010010 1010101010 010110010110 111100100010 0101010101 11110111 1011011010 101101110 110010111111 110111101011 1011010010 11111111010 010110111 101010101 010110101 10000111 1011011010 101101110 1111001100 1101101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1524
  • Average number of words per stanza: 271
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; isabel, bear, she, giant, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words isabel, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, up, off are repeated).

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