This is an analysis of the poem The Escape Of The Old Grey Squirrel that begins with:
Old Grey Squirrel might have been
Almost anything -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdbd efegfaaF hidgiahjgiXdXk jlkhkij cgbgbmhf kamkghaghin jagajlgglXibX hIhhI coXoXjbj jljoljjgloj ggggF bnahnggjhjh IhXI
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,14,7,8,11,13,5,8,11,5,11,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110 11101 11001010 1010 100101111 1100101 111001 1010101 1010111 1010101 10101010 1111101 1110001 1111101 1001110 1110101 11011 0011101 1111101 1110101 011101 1111111 1110101 00101 1011100 11111000 1011101 11101110 11101001 1110101 1110101 1010101 1011101 1110111 10100110 10101 10101010 10011101 1010101 11101010 1010111 1110101 1010111 101110 1111111 1011111 1010011 01111 101010010 0010101 1010101 100111010 1010101 1010111 01010101 1011111 11010110 1000101 01010111 1010101 1010101 1011101 1111111 1011101 1011000 1001101 11111110 1010100 1011101 1110111 1010111 10010101 10101 11101010 1110111 100111010 10010111 101001010 11101001 111111110 1111101 10100101 111001001 10010010011 0101101111 100100101 011011101 1111101111 10100110 111111001 1111100111 11101101 101001110 10100111 10101110 10101001 1001110 11101010 1110111 1111110 1011011 1011101 1110101 1011101 1010101 1011101 1110111 1111101 1110111 1010101 1011100 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; figures, and, he, had, clings are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
The author used the same word 'curious' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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