This is an analysis of the poem The Embarrasing Episode Of Little Miss Muffet that begins with:

LITTLE Miss Muffet discovered a tuffet,
(Which never occurred to the rest of us)... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcdc efXfeggg efcXXdXd gcccecXXXabeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110010010 1100100101 111011110110 1100110101 01011111001 00101101110 011010010110 0100101110 010010010110 1100111101 110110011100 1101101101 11001101011 0100111100 010010110010 1110100100 0100100100101 101100101 01001101111 11101100101 11001111111 11110100100 11101111001 00110100100 010010010010 1101101101 10110111001 1101100101 01001110111 1111111100 111010110110 1111101101 101000001011 01111001 111001111001 111111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1847
  • Average number of words per stanza: 294
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; it, and, ', you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, ' are repeated).

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  • summary of The Embarrasing Episode Of Little Miss Muffet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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