This is an analysis of the poem Wot A Pair that begins with:

I waz walking down Wyefront street
When me trousers ran away,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBabcaca XdcdbXB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 11101101 1110101 1110001 11110111 1111111 01011101 111110101011 101 11111110 111101 1101010 0011001 110010101011101 11101010 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • 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; they, dem, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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