This is an analysis of the poem Shock-Headed Peter that begins with:
Just look at him! there he stands,
With his nasty hair and hands....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 0010111 1011101 11101111 1010101 1011101 10101010 10111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Shock-Headed Peter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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