This is an analysis of the poem The Scarecrow Ii that begins with:
More than cakes or anything
I like tales of shivering.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccX dXbeeb ffghhg iihggh hhdjjd jjhggX jjdkkd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1110100 1010101 1010111 1111101 1111100 1110111 1011110 1111111 1111111 1110001 1011101 1101101 1110101 1010110 1011101 1010101 0110101 1010111 0010101 1000111 0110101 1000111 1011101 1000111 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1110101 1000111 1110111 1010101 0110111 1111001 1111111 11100111 1111111 1110001 1111001 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; that, and are repeated.
The author used the same word 'then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase jack connects the lines.
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