This is an analysis of the poem The Little Coat that begins with:
Here's his ragged 'roundabout';
Turn the pockets inside out:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbXXaabbbXccaX ddeeeeaaXXffggXX hhiigghhXbccffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100 1010011 1011101 1010101 1010111 0010101 0010111 1010001 1010101 1010101 1010111 1011100 10110111 1010101 1100101 101 1010111 10101011 1110111 1011101 1011111 0010100 1011101 1110111 1011101 1110101 1000111 1110111 1110001 10100101 1010101 01 1010111 1011101 1111101 1111101 1110110 1010111 1110111 1011101 1010100 10010101 10011101 1011101 1010101 0010111 1111101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word every is repeated.
The author used the same word here's 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 ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Little Coat;
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