This is an analysis of the poem Just Whistle A Bit that begins with:
Just whistle a bit, if the day be dark,
And the sky be overcast:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab aabb Xcdc eedd fgfg gghh dcXc iibb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100101 1010101 0100100101 111111 101001100111 010101101 1111111111 1010011101 1100100101 1010101 101110111 011101 1010100101 0100101111 1100100111 010100111 11001011101 0011001 11101101001 010011 00101101111 1111011101101 101011101001 1101011011011 1100101101 10100111 111110010110 1011101 101110100101 11110101 011110110111 11111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; be, of, your, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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