This is an analysis of the poem When I Was Small that begins with:
There was a time when I was very small
A mere two feet was all I measured then;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec afaf ghgh daXa hidi jbjbXjbjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111101 0111111101 1111001101 1001111101 0101010111 11110101111 0111011111 1101011101 0111010101 1101111101 1011011111 1111010111 1101110101 1101010101 1111011010 0100111111 1101100101 0001111001 1111011101 0101010101 1011010011 1110110101 1111011111 1101010101 0101010101 0111010111 1101111111 0011101101 11111101110 1111011101 11110110110 1111110111 11111111010 1101110011 0100000111110 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; i, time, and, how, in, for, my, all, gone are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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