This is an analysis of the poem A Ventriloquist With Charm that begins with:
It takes a certain skill,
To be able to talk from the side......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXabcd ddXcXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 010101 001001001 011 10111100 1100001 010101110 0010101110101 001011010010 00100001000010101 1001110011010 1110100110 10100010110001 101000111101110 1001011010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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