This is an analysis of the poem The Goose that begins with:
Here is a tale for spinsters at their sewing:
There was a goose, a little gosling surely,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcebaeba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011101110 11010101010 11011111010 110011111110 101111001010 11001101110 10010001110 11011101110 11100111110 111011110010 01110101011 11011101010 111001101010 01010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 641
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; goose, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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