This is an analysis of the poem A Muff that begins with:
I wanted a muff
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaBXb ababcb ababcb ababbb abaBXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 111011 011101 001101 110110010 11001001 11011 011011 111101 011011 010010110 11001101 11011 111101 001001 111001 111111110 101011011 11011 11111 01011 111111 1110111111 111001011 111001 101011 11001 001101 1110010011 11101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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