This is an analysis of the poem The Book Of Phillip Sparrow that begins with:

Pla ce bo,
Who is there, who?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcbbXXddeXbcXX XXXXXbXXXXX fffXXXXXX eXXXXbfXXffXX ggXXbXfbXXgghhbXXbXXiijaXXkkXXXXXXddXXbXXXbbb XXeXeXdddddffXXbXjaa XiXfX llXXXXff cXffffbXlXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,11,9,13,45,20,5,8,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111 1011 101 1100 1111 10111 10101010 1111110 010101 11111 1111001 1011000 10101 011110 10010001 01111 111010 111011 10101 11011 10011 110101 111110 010110 1100100 011010 111111 11111 100011 1111 011010 1100100 110110 10111 110001 111001 101111 100101 111110 110111 110111 110011 001111 1100111 10011011 11101 111111 1101110 1111100 110111 11111 011001 1101011 010110 00111 11011111 110111 110111 11111 110111 11111 01001001 11111 111 111110 110011000100 0110111 1100101 00101 010001 100101 100110 010101 101100 010111 1001011 110111 1010010 11001010 10010100 1100010 10011 010001 100101 110011 110110 1101110 110101 0111 110101 010101 010011 1100110 011101 111 11110 1001001010 11111000 110101 011110 100001 010111 1101001 110011 111101 1100111 001001 1100101 110001 111101 101001 011010 1001101 111001 0111001 011101 1101011 10101 01001110 010101 1110111 1110110 1101110 1101011 101101 01111 01111 101110 11101 01101 11111 1100111 11111 11111 100101 11111 10010 11111010 111111 111101 010111 1100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 142
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, whom, it, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word it 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 cut is repeated).

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