This is an analysis of the poem The Alley that begins with:
Because you are four years old
the candle is all dressed up in a new frill....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXefgchaaaiajXak kllmimkiec noeeeeeioeelebcbedaallla paXXdebqkq ioqrkeaks mkieaqdb adkmepqejdXeidjeecc kedrerdkbckmqddeegeeedfnckp deecdjmqbbdbbbamsbXdapdmcaphqm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,10,24,10,9,8,19,27,30,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101 01001110011 111011010010 0101110 1101011 11101001 111010 1110101101 11011011 11101110 11110001 111101 1101 11010111 101 011101101 01011 010001 1111100 01011 1010010101 1110011 1101010010 111101 00100010 11101001 11101101 11110101 110101 1011010 1011010 111 111111 1110110 1111 1101 11010101 111101010 11111 1110110 111111 11101 11011 01001 11010101 110101 1111101010 111010001 101010101 01011110 111110 11010 101 1101011 11101 11001010 01110010 1110010110 1110100101 1101010 11010010 1111111001 01110 101 11101110 1001010 011110111 10101111 1011011 11011010 101101 10110101 1101010 1111101 1111111 0100110101 1010101 11011110 111001010 1110010 11101 111101 0110101 0100010 1111011 1101 110 10111010 1101001 00101 110101 101 11101 1001101 10111 01 000110010110 1011011 110101 101111001 110111 111 1110100101 11111 00101 111101 11100101110 110101 0101 11110101101 111110 110110010 101110101 1101 1110010 11110110 011001101 101110010 111111010 101 101011011 01011110101 1011111 1010101 1101101100 1111 111 10101 1011 111 101011 110111 11010 10110 11101 101101 11011 11101 11110 10111 110111 111110 1110101 10101 111 10001 11001101 1011 101010 1010101 10101 1011001111 111101110 1110 011110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 438
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 161
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; you, buzz, i, her, it, and, of, still are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and, buzz, so, jimmie, big are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, house are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase jimmie connects the lines.
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- summary of The Alley;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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