This is an analysis of the poem There's No Ending Of It that begins with:
Big, bigger, bigger, big, big, big!
Big are they in the making, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCdEE BCdCFdBCdCFdEEgEgE dAdEEgEgE BCdEEg BCdEEdBCdEE daXBCdBCdBC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,18,9,6,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 1110010 0010101 1 111000 11011000 1110010 0010101 1 101100010 00101011 1 1110010 0010101 1 101100010 00101011 1 111000 11011000 1 111000 1 111000 1 11010111 1 111000 11011000 1 111000 1 111000 1110010 0010101 1 111000 11011000 1 1110010 0010101 1 111000 11011000 1 1110010 0010101 1 111000 11011000 1 10101010111 1110010 0010101 1 1110010 0010101 1 1110010 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; big, no, of, bigger are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words big, no are repeated.
The author used the same word big 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 it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase big connects the lines.
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- summary of There's No Ending Of It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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