This is an analysis of the poem Playing At Bob Cherry that begins with:
Playing at bob cherry
Tom and Nell and Hugh: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbababXdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 11111 101101 10111 11010 110101 1101010 1101 111 110101 01010101 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bob, cherry, look are repeated.
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