This is an analysis of the poem Rumpelstiltskin that begins with:
Inside many of us
is a small old man...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdedfXgfbahbidXiaaiXcg jedklkdlmmnb cihcddhcOhcOfXfOaaddpdaDbkgDQdnDqcdDQqbjXbbXbdma jgbimlbbodiobqanblqjcarpqcdiicfjjdqcXpjrjdgjcbnmgbiqdqi dcXcdcpjgbmoX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,12,48,55,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001 00111 11011 11010111 11111 10101111 01011 10101101000 10010001 10101 1111101111 01001001 1111 11010001 1101011 111101011 01100100 11010110 010010101 1111 0011011 0011000 10011 0101 111010 0010110101 1101111 1110101 011001 110001101 110010001 111110100 1101101 101111 11 01110110 11 01110011 011010101 11110101 10111111 0010111101 1101 1100100111 1110101110 111101 000110111110 1110101110 1101101 111101010 111101 1110101110 1010100 111101 11001 10111 1111 1101001 1111010 10101 10111111 1100010101 110111 0111 01011 011101001 11101 10101 01100110101 101110 010001010 0111 01011 11110011 0100101111 1110101010 11010011 11111 1101 111 10010101 11101 11001 110111 01100 10101 0111 1111110 11011101 1011101 11101010 10010010 11100 110101 0101 011101010 10101 11011010 1110100 0101 0101 11010 1111 011110110 111010 1001010 101110 111011 110111 1011010 100111 011100 0101011 00101001 1101011 11010 100 1110101 111111 01111 100100 101111 10110100 1100110 110 11101010001 101101001 1101010010 100100 0111000100101 110111110 0111 0111111 01101101001 110010101 11000011 011010 1101 01110 10101 111 01111011000 11010111 110110001 1101001 1110101 1110110 110111101 1111010 11011 1110 111000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 838
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 152
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, i, your, of, and, no, one, part are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, i, it, and, again, one are repeated.
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- summary of Rumpelstiltskin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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