This is an analysis of the poem They Shut Me Up In Prose that begins with:
They shut me up in Prose --
As when a little Girl... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX bccc aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 110101 1110010 01111100 110111 111111 11111101 110001 011100 110101 01000100 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, me are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase still connects the lines.
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