This is an analysis of the poem Sticky Fingers that begins with:
Wife says that I should be ashamed
To wear such garments as I do, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX cecefgfg hghgXeXe didihfhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111001 01110111 110011101 11011111 11110101 11011101 01010111 110101110 11110111 11111101 110010101 11010110 11010100 01010101 01010101 01001100 11010011 01111001 11110101 11100101 11010101 11010101 111111010 110011101 11110111 01011101 01011111 11010111 11011110 11110100 11010101 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a 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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