This is an analysis of the poem The English are So Nice! that begins with:
The English are so nice
so awfully nice... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab acX Xcdd eaefbfabaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010111 1101 1101010001 111110101101 01110111 0111111110 010011110111 11101 11110111 111011001111 1111010101000 11010001 011000 1010101011100 1110101 111110100 011111 11110101000110101 101111101 1110111010 11011101 0101111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; nice, and, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nice is repeated).
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