This is an analysis of the poem A Legal Mouse that begins with:
A lawyer had a legal mouse,
A naughty one they say,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XaXa cbcb dada ecec fbfg hihi agXb jcjc cdcd ckck hehe eXeb aeae acac aeae eiei ldld eXeXXecec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 010111 11010001 110101 01101011 010111 01011101 110101 11010111 010111 11011111 011101 01010111 110101 01010101 110101 11011101 010101 10010101 010111 01010101 010101 00010101 010100 11110101 010101 01110001 010101 01011101 010100 01011111 010001 11010101 010101 01110101 010001 01110111 010101 01111101 011111 110010111 011101 01110101 011101 01110100 011111 11010111 110101 01010011 010110 10010101 110111 01010101 010111 11101101 010001 10010101 110101 01110001 110001 01110001 010101 11010101 011111 10010101 111101 11000101 111111 11001111 010111 11011101 110111 11111101 111111 01010001 010101 01110101 110011 11010111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 80
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, to, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, its are repeated.
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- summary of A Legal Mouse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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