This is an analysis of the poem The Daddy Long-Legs And The Fly that begins with:
Once Mr Daddy Long-Legs,
Dressed in brown and gray,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacbcddeX abfBdfgfhhdX XBfbafafddfXXBiXgbgBccXX adbdfiaieefX aBbbiiXiffiX aBbbfbabddeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,24,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 10111 1010101 010101 1101010 1011101 11010101 110111 11011101 1111001 111101111 11001100 1101011 010101 11110101 111111 11110111 110101 11110111 110111 10111111 11111101 11110111 1011101 1101011 110101 11110101 110111 01111111 111101 11110111 110101 10010111 1011101 11011111 11010101 1101011 110101 11111101 110100 11011101 010111 11110111 111111 101101001 11011101 11011101 01111111 1101011 1110101 10111111 110111 10111101 110101 10010100 111111 11111111 01110001 10111111 11011101 1101011 110101 11010101 110101 11100101 011111 11111111 010111 11011101 01011111 01010101 01011111 1101011 110101 11000101 011101 11110101 110111 11110101 11101 11010101 11011001 11111101 11001100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 422
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, would are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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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