This is an analysis of the poem Tuckered Out that begins with:
YOU don't weigh more than thirty pounds,
Your legs are little, plump and fat, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaeafdfd gbgbcdcd XcXchihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 11110111 11110111 01110111 11001111 01011101 11010111 11011101 01010111 11011101 11010101 11010101 11111101 11001101 01111111 11111111 111100010 11010111 110111010 11011101 10011101 11110111 10011111 01011111 110101001 11010101 11111111 11111111 11111101 01011111 110011101 010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; you, and, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words then, you, and, oh are repeated.
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