This is an analysis of the poem The Four Friends that begins with:
Ernest was an elephant, a great big fellow,
Leonard was a lion with a six foot tail,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeb XdXd fbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110001110 10101000111 1101101110 11101011 10101101111 10101010101 110111101011 1111101 101010011010 10101011001 1101001010 11111111 1010100111010 10101011001 111010001110 11101001 10111001101010 10101000111 11011111110 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word earnest at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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