This is an analysis of the poem Pa Did It! that begins with:
The train of cars that Santa brought is out of kilter now;
While pa was showing how they went he broke the spring somehow....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbaa ccddaa ddbbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011101010101 111101111100111 11010101111011 11110011110001 11111100010111 11110101110111 01001111110101 11011011101111 11011101011101 11111100010111 11010111110101 01010101110101 11111011111011 11010101110111 11010101110101 01011101111001 11111111110101 010011111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (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; they, i, it are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word so at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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