This is an analysis of the poem I'll Stretch It a Little that begins with:
The wintry blast was fierce and cold,
And the lassie's coat was thin and old....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXXXXXXaabbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 101011111 01010101 10110001 11011111 11111111 01010101 10010111 11010101 11010101 11010101 01011101 110111001 11010111 10011101 01010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 578
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
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