This is an analysis of the poem Keep Purchasing Those Toys that begins with:
Your friends may have you believing,
Anything you want to hear and wish....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabc XaXad efaXc dbgXgXegfaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 101110111 1111 11001001 1111011010 1110011 01010 100101110 110111 010010101101 111001011111 01010110101 11001011111 10111001 110111001 11101010000101 10111111 11100 01111010010 11 11001101111 10101011111 01111111101 1011110011 110011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, to are repeated.
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