This is an analysis of the poem Story Telling that begins with:
Most every night when they're in bed,
And both their little prayers have said,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaaXX bbccddbb bbbbeXXd eebbffgg hhddXXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011101 11110111 11110101 11010101 11000111 010111010 11011101 11110111 11010101 11010001 11011101 00010101 11011101 11011101 01010001 11111101 11110111 11011101 11010111 11111111 110100100 111101110 11010101 110100111 11011101 11001101 01110111 01010101 11111111 11010111 11011101 11110101 11001111 11110101 11010001 11011111 11110111 11111101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, that, they, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bees, ' are repeated).
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- summary of Story Telling;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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