This is an analysis of the poem The Little Velvet Suit that begins with:
Last night I got to thinkin' of the pleasant long ago,
When I still had on knee breeches, an' I wore a flowing bow,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeaa ffggaXXaaeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110100010101 111111101110101 111111101111011 111110101010101 011110111110101 111010101110111 11011010011101 11010101110111 111111101011111 01111101111101 111110101110101 111011101110111 11110100111101 1110101011011101 111010101110111 111011101110111 101000011010111 101010101010111 111010101111111 111010101110101 111110101111101 11011101010111 101110101110101 10110111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (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; i, an', she, as, and, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', and are repeated.
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