This is an analysis of the poem Peekabo, I Almost See You that begins with:
Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to
lead it,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXbaXXefXeXXaaXgagbhhchXfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101110 10 11101111 111111001 01 010101111110 1111100111 00100 10111100100 11001000111 101011101011101 1101000110110 00101011 111101101110 1111111011 11101011 111 111010101010101 1100000 101011001011001 01100 111111011101001 11101011010011 10101011001 11111110100101 0101111111 01011111101001 1 10100111010111010 001011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1308
- Average number of words per stanza: 225
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, glasses are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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