This is an analysis of the poem His Example that begins with:
There are little eyes upon you, and they're watching night and day;
There are little ears that quickly take in every word you say;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddaaXddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111110111 1110111010100111 111011100110111 101011100011011 101010101010001 001010111010101 101010101111111 101110111111111 100111101111101 11011100010001 101110101110111 111011101110101 101110101011111 101111101110111 1110101010010111 101011100110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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; little, you, there, and, in, it, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, he, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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