This is an analysis of the poem Little Girls Are Best that begins with:
Little girls are mighty nice,
Take 'em any way they come;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcD ececfgfg afafhihi gcgchdXD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1010111 1111111 1010101 1110101 1010111 1110101 1011101 1010011 0111111 1010101 1110101 1111111 1011101 1111101 1111101 1011101 1011101 1110101 1010110 1010001 10101001 1110111 0011001 1111101 1011111 111001001 1010001 11100101 1110111 1010101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; or, an' are repeated.
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