This is an analysis of the poem Old Man Whiskery-Whee-Kum-Wheeze that begins with:
Old Man Whiskery-Whee-Kum-Wheeze
Lives 'way up in the leaves o' trees.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabbccaA AaccXXaA AaXXddaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100111 11100111 11111101 010111101 1110100101 111110101 111111001 11100111 111100111 1111001001 1101011001 110100101 111111110 110101110 1101001001 11100111 111100111 11101111 0101101111 110101111 111101111 1100101101 11111111 111001110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', bow, my, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same word an' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wheeze is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word wheeze at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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