This is an analysis of the poem Much, Much Longer Than Ten Feet that begins with:
Where is your ten foot pole?
That had become a fixture of your personality, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb XXXXb c cXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 11010100110100 101000 1110 101011011101 01 1001 11 111000 1101100 11111101 1000101 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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