This is an analysis of the poem Have You Seen My Other Shoe that begins with:
Excuse me,
But have you seen my other shoe? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xcdd dadXa Xacbd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,5,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 11111101 11111001 11111 111101 1101001 110010011 11100101000 101 111 1110100100 1011001 1110111 111001 1111 1011001 11110011 1011 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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