This is an analysis of the poem I Choose To Be A Rooster that begins with:

I can strut it like a rooster,
Recently freed from being locked up inside of a coop....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABACAD ABACAD EBDBdA ACAD EBDBdAXABACADdA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,4,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010 10010101101001 11101010 1001 11101010 01111 11101010 10010101101001 11101010 1001 11101010 01111 10101 110111 1101010 1110101 01 1100010 11101010 1001 11101010 01111 10101 110111 1101010 1110101 01 1100010 11101010 10010101101001 11101010 1001 11101010 01111 01 1100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rooster is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words please, rooster at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of I Choose To Be A Rooster;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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