This is an analysis of the poem When Pa Counts that begins with:
Pa's not so very big or brave; he can't lift weights like Uncle Jim;
His hands are soft like little girls'; most anyone could wallop him. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX ddaaaX eeffcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011111111101 0111110111001101 1101111111110111 1001011111110101 11010101110111111 01110101110111110 1111110111010101 1101011101011101 11010010101010111 1101010101110111 1101011111110001 1100101011111111110 1111111101011111 11001011111011101 1111110011010101 11110010111010101 1101010111011111 01000100110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 422
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word pa's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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