This is an analysis of the poem How Are You Sanitary? that begins with:
Down the picket-guarded lane
Rolled the comfort-laden wain, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabccXX dddbeeXX aaabfffX eeebgggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010101 1111101 101110 1011111 1010101 1110101 101000 1110101 10111001 1010011 101010 1010111 1111111 11111010 101000 0110101 1010111 1010101 111010 1110101 1010101 1110111 111000 1010101 1010111 1011101 111010 1010111 1010111 1010111 101000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; ' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word see is 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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- summary of How Are You Sanitary?;
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- history of its creation;
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