This is an analysis of the poem Riddles that begins with:
I.
I have only one foot, but thousands of toes;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbaaccccdd X eeaaeff eeggehh X ccii X cccc cc jj kk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,1,7,7,1,4,1,4,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11101111001 111111101 10010101101 110010111 00101101101 11011111011 11101100101 1111111011 11011111101 1111110111 00100111110 10101111110 1 10011111 100101101 101011 001001 1100101101 0101101101 0101110111 1100101111 0100110111 1011 110111 1100101001 111011101 100110101 11110 1001110111 1100101111 111011111 110110101 1 1010111101 0011101101 11101111011 11101101011 101011011101 11010101101 0100101001 1110010111 11111111111 110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, i, nor, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
The author used the same words i, i've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of Riddles;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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