This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Whipping Of The Top that begins with:
Tis with the whip the boy sets up the top,
The whip makes it run round upon its toe;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001011101 0110110101 0110101101 1001010101 0100 1100011001 0101111101 1101110111 1001110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; whip is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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