This is an analysis of the poem The Bargain that begins with:
As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven lives;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabXbacdcXeXeaded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 11010101 101 0101 11010 1101 1101 11001 1111 1101 11010 1010010 11110 111110 10101 1101 010 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- 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; seven, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lives is repeated).
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