This is an analysis of the poem The Nine Little Goblins that begins with:
They all climbed up on a high board-fence--
Nine little Goblins, with green-glass eyes--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedXdX fgfghh ihiXii jkjkXX dldlmm bebell ababdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110111 110100111 110101111 1101100111 1111110111 1110110101 1011111101 001101111001 110100111 101010101 1111110111 11111111 11110100101 11110111 111100101 00100101101 00111101001 1011100111 101101010111 1101110111 11101111111 100101101 1110111101 111110110 101110111 10111111 011111111 110100101 111100101 11111110 110100101 11011011 110011101 100111101 1001111001 0011100101 110111111 11100101 1111100101 1111111101 1110101110 1110100111 11110110111 1100100111 1100100101 100100111 111010111 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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, laughed, his, he, in, my, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nine, and, singing are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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