This is an analysis of the poem Pickin Em Up and Layin Em Down that begins with:
There's a long-legged girl
in San Francisco...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXbCDEDEDEef egbecDEDEDEEf fgXcDEDEDEEf ahhhCDEDEDEEf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,13,12,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 01010 10101 111111110 111101 1100 1011 11011 1011 11011 1011 11011 100011 10 10101 0101 111011 11110111 1101111100 1011 11011 1011 11011 1011 11011 100011 10 111100110 111111 1101111010 111010101100 1011 11011 1011 11011 1011 11011 100011 10 11111111 010101 10111111 0100111 1100 1011 11011 1011 11011 1011 11011 100011 10
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; em, to, i are repeated.
The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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