This is an analysis of the poem When She Played It Was On Her Piano that begins with:
As a kid I had ambitions.
And the first of them was to do my chores, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc X d eXX fgeha idbbecgj eeXX hXajhfa dkchehe lhiibddfX flkkXXX cdgdeegXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,1,3,5,8,4,7,7,9,7,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 1010010111 0111011101 1111011 1110101 10 11 010 1010 11011111 11 1101 010011 01010 110111001010 0111101 11101 111110101 11111101 101101 11001001 1010111100 11101001 1011101 111010100 11010011 11111 110010100000 10110011 110 1101011101110 01011 100101001001110 0111011111 111110010110101 01101000111111 11111100111 01111101000101 01010 110101101 1110 11011001110 0101010101 11101010 101111011001101 11011010101 1 111011110111 110101001 01 1111101 1111 111111 111011 101011010 1111010 1111101 1011101 1 1110101 1 010001 01111 0110 111 0110010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines up is repeated).
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