This is an analysis of the poem Getting One To Speak Fluent French that begins with:
You can dress a monkey in a tuxedo
To mingle amongst key guests and their associates....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXadeXb eXccdbdXXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101000110 0100111110100 11010110111110 0011010100 011010000101 01111001010010010 110111 1101010001100101 00101000011001010 10001001011101111 1110010 101 1111 0010111 1 11110 0101000100110001 1101010 010 111101 11101010011101100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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