This is an analysis of the poem His First Long Trousers that begins with:
SAY, young fellow, just a minute,
They 're your first long trousers, eh?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabcdc eXfbgcec ffefecgc ecgcededXcagafcec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001 11111101 11101110 1010101 11101110 1110111 10111011 1110101 11110010 11101110 101010101 110101 10101110 1110111 100101110 1011101 11111011 1110111 11101110 1110101 1111001010 1010111 11101010 1111101 11101110 111111 10101010 1011101 11111010 1111101 10100110 0111111 1011001010 1011101 11101110 1010001 111011111 1010101 101011010 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, you are repeated.
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