This is an analysis of the poem Lizards And Snakes that begins with:
On the summer road that ran by our front porch
Lizards and snakes came out to sun....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefefef ghghhdhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101111111 10111101 011101110101 01011011 0100111101101 1100010101 001001011001 1001111101101 1101101100 010111101 0111110010000 100101111 111010000101 0010110101 1010111101001 010011111111 111000011001 0011111101 11101111001 1111010101 1111111111 11111100101 11111101001111 1101010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, as are repeated.
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