This is an analysis of the poem The Things They Mustn'T Touch that begins with:
Been down to the art museum an' looked at a thousand things,
The bodies of ancient mummies an' the treasures of ancient kings,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd eebb ffgg eebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010010101110101 0100101010100101 1100101011001101 111010101110111 110110101110101 1010011101100101 111001010010111 1010010101110101 111110100100111 1011110101100111 110111101101111 1100101010111101 011010101100101 110010101110101 1111010101100101 1111100101100111 111110100100111 111011100101101 1111101010111111 01111010110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, an', i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
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