This is an analysis of the poem If Johnny Only Had An Eight Inch Foot that begins with:
I remember being in elementary school,
And on the very first day of fifth grade......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbX cXdc eaXd eeX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,3,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010010101 1101011011 010101 1010 1101001010 1111110 010101 100110010 110111110010 011110011110 010110010010011 111110 011010101010 11101011 11011101101 01010111111 111 010100011 1 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
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- summary of If Johnny Only Had An Eight Inch Foot;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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