This is an analysis of the poem Glad that begins with:
There's a battered old drum on the floor,
And a Teddy bear sleeps in my chair, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbC dedebcbC afafbcbC egegbcbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011101 101011011 101101001 101111001 111011001 101011101 111111101 11001011 101001011 101101011 101001101 101011001 111011101 101111101 111111101 11001011 111001101 01011101 111011101 11101101 101001001 101001101 111111001 11001011 11101011 11101111 001001101 11101001 101010001 110111001 001001111 11001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word back at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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- summary of Glad;
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