This is an analysis of the poem George that begins with:
Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions
When George's Grandmamma was told...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeeffaaaagghhh bbddbbiiddjjXgaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,19,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100111000100001000010 11010011 11101011 11000101 01110101 11101101 01000101 110001001 01000101 01110101 01110101 10010111 01000101 11010011 11010101 11011101 01010101 0100100011 11000101 11000101 11010101 01010101 01010001 01110101 01010111 11110001 10110001 01010001 11011101 11110101 01100101 01010101 10 01001101 110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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