This is an analysis of the poem Wherever Your Nose Went that begins with:
Are you feeling down and low?
As if clinging onto thin rope, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcdd Xedcfd adeeXeXfebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 10101011 1111011100 01010100110 1 11110010 110111101 11 10001001010111 11011 11111111 1010 11010101111 110101 11110110101 010111 111110101101 10 11110001 1111001 1100100101011 10110011010000010 1010100 110110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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