This is an analysis of the poem What Uncle Rob Says that begins with:
Uncle Rob says,
That once on a time the fire flies... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bb XX bX XXXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011 111010101 0100101001 110101111 110100101 111100111 11010110010 1110101001 1101111110 110011111 1111100101 1110111001 1111100101 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 'let's 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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