This is an analysis of the poem Guess Who? that begins with:
From billabong or pond
he serenades the moon ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacc ccbbdd dede fXfffXXe Xaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,4,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011 1100001 010101 011101 100111 110111 01000111 11110001 11111001 01010100 11010001 10011101 11110011 0101010 01111101 0010110 01001101 110111 10011101 01010101 11011101 010100 010111110 011101010 111 1101 1100 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
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- summary of Guess Who?;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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