This is an analysis of the poem Leader Of The Gang that begins with:
Seems only just a year ago that he was toddling round the place
In pretty little colored suits and with a pink and shining face....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111110101 0101010110011101 1101101101110101 11011111110001 0111011111011111 10110100110011101 1111010101110011 0111111111110001 1011110111011101 0101111110010111 1001010111000101 0111010111010001 1111111111011111 0111011011001101 11110101010100101 1111110101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, that, i, we are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word gang at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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