This is an analysis of the poem How High Do You Lift Those Legs? that begins with:
If I saw myself as others wished me to be,
I'd be more frightening than 'godzilla'....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXaX XbbX XX XXXX bXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,2,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111101100 1011001100 1111100011 10011001011100 1100010101 1111001101100 11 1010101 111101010 010001101 110100 11101101 01010001 111100110001 011010010100010 11111001011 110 1 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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