This is an analysis of the poem Jodie Foster that begins with:

Thank you.
Thank you......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AABCDBXee AAFBCDBXFaecd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 11 11001010100 0010010 10111000 01001110100100 0010101001 001 010111001100 11 11 1010 11001010100 0010010 10111000 01001110100100 1010 1 1010010 00111010010 010100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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; to is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word thank 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 you is repeated).

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  • summary of Jodie Foster;
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