This is an analysis of the poem Show Me! that begins with:
I would rather see a Mason, than hear one any day,
I would rather one would walk with me than merely show the way....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010111101 111011101110101 01010101110101 11000101100111 101010101011111 101000100110101 111110100111101 111110101111111 1010101010111 111011101010111 111100111010111 111100101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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; than, would, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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