This is an analysis of the poem George And The Chimney-Sweep that begins with:
HIS petticoats now George cast off,
For he ws four years old; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXXX cccXcdcX ccccbebX edeXfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 111001101 01000101 010111 111111101 110101 11101101 010111 11011001 111001 11011111 1101111 11100111 110111 11011101 110111 11110101 011111 01111101 110001 01011111 011101 11011001 111101 11010111 111101 111101001 111011 11111111 110111 01011111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; ', and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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