This is an analysis of the poem A Naughty Little Comet that begins with:
There was a little comet who lived near the Milky Way!
She loved to wander out at night and jump about and play.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc bb aa dd ee ff gg bb hhXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101110101 11010111110111 01000101010011 110101011100111 11000101111101 1111101110100101 101010101010101 01010101110111 11010101110111 11001111111110 11010101110101 11111101011101 11010101111101 11010101110001 11011101111111 11010111110111 11111101110101 01110111011111 11111001010011 11111101010101 11111111001101 11010111110001 11110101010111 1101110111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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, of, she, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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