This is an analysis of the poem The Limit that begins with:
I CAN stand for the man with the cute little bow
On the back of his green colored hat, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcB dXdXebeB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101001101 101001101 11101001011 11111011 001001001111 001101001 11111111001 01001101 111011101011 11101111 101001111001 001111101 01001001001 001011001 11111001001 01001101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word wrist at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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