This is an analysis of the poem Children's Party that begins with:
May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?
I wish to retire till the party's over....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccdeeedXeffeeeXbbdeeXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001110 11001101010 11011111 01011101110111011 101111011 111101111 1100110111010101 11010111 11011011110 111101111001010011 11011100 1101010100 0111010100110010101 0010101 1100010010 11110010111101010010 10101110010 1111110010 1110111001011101010100 10101111000100 10101001001 01101110010100100111 11011011011 110101101 1111011011111001010 11101001110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1325
- Average number of words per stanza: 239
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; i, them, their, and, to, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, it are repeated).
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