This is an analysis of the poem Ruffled Puffers that begins with:
Don't keep yours a secret.
Tease with a dazzling and make it lurch....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcadXbc aaXaaaaXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 1001001101 10100110 01010010011 1111111 111001 1010011011 001000010 1111010100 110010 101 1010111010 1100110101 1010100101101 110010110 1111101 1100111001 10011011100001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; your is repeated.
The author used the same word don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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