This is an analysis of the poem What The Snake Saw that begins with:

A little girl and a big ugly man
Went down the road. The girl was crying...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcacabdbdbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101101101 110101110 1100111111 11010111010 1100111111 0101110111 1101011101 1111010101 110010011 1011111101 1101011111 0111111111 0111011101 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
  • Average number of words per stanza: 125
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her are repeated.

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  • summary of What The Snake Saw;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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