This is an analysis of the poem Couldn'T Live Without You that begins with:
You're just a little fellow with a lot of funny ways,
Just three-foot-six of mischief set with eyes that fairly blaze;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ccddbb eeaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100010101 11110101011101 11110100110111 111011101011101 1110111111100111 11000101111101 11010100010111 11001101011101 11011111011111 11010101011101 11011111111100 111010101111101 111010101010101 101010101111101 111010111011101 01011111011111 111011011110100 111010111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, an', i, you, to, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you're at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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