This is an analysis of the poem The Day I Got My Finger Stuck Up My Nose that begins with:
When I got my finger stuck up my nose
I went to a doctor, who said,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX abbX Xbab XbbX XbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101111 11001011 1001011001 101011110 10101101111 010110011 101101001001 10111011110 110010011111 110010001 100101101111 010010011 10011101001 1011001 1011110101 100111110 10101001001 111110011 1011110111 110011100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it's is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word head at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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