This is an analysis of the poem On Top Of Earth I Will Stroll that begins with:
I wish someone would stop me,
And ask me why I peacock....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX cdeaX bfXg ggegXfdcbgee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 1111111 101110101 111100 101101100 101010010 01110100 01001000 110101 01110101 1101101 00101 010 11111 010001 11010100 1110101101 11101 1010010 100 111100101000 111010101 11011011 01100010010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of are repeated.
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