This is an analysis of the poem Snooping 'Round that begins with:
Last night I caught him on his knees and looking underneath the bed,
And oh, the guilty look he wore, and oh, the stammered words he said,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcaa bbaXaX ddeeaa fcfggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110111010101 11010111110100111 110100011111011 10 1010010111010101 10011111110100101 1100010111010101 1111110101010101 1111001111011101 0100111111101001 1011010111011101 1101110111010101 1111011111110110 1111010111110011 1101011101010101 0111010101011101 1111010101000101 1101110111010101 1111111011010101 1111010111010111 111100111110101 01 1101010111100101 0101010011011111 1111010111011111 1101000111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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; and, ', i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word around at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Snooping 'Round;
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