This is an analysis of the poem The Poor Little Toe that begins with:
I am all tired out, said the mouth, with a pout,
I am all tired out with talk.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dece fgeg Xddd afcfXefgff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101101001 11110101 111011111110 1110111 111010010001 110101101 111101110011 111110001 101111001101 11001001 00101011110111 01100110011 0010011010111 111110101010 11101111110111 111111101110 11101010010111 1111010111 11110011111101 10101010101 101101101111 11001101 010101110001 011010101 01101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; walk, said, and, i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines toe is repeated).
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