This is an analysis of the poem The Thumbed Collar that begins with:
Go up and change your collar,' mother often says to me,
'For you can't go out in that one, it's as dirty as can be. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbb ccddbb ccbbXbXbbaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101010101 111110110110110 111010101110101 1010111011111010 111111101000101 111010111010101 101110100010101 111010101011111 111101101111101 111010101111101 101010100110111 111010111010101 111111101011111 111111111110101 001001101110101 111011101110111 1110101000111110 111010101010101 101011100110101 001011101110101 101011101110101 1100110101110101 011111111110101 111010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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; ', and, i, when, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word thumbed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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