This is an analysis of the poem To A Small Boy Standing On My Shoes While I Am Wearing Them that begins with:
Let's straighten this out, my little man,
And reach an agreement if we can....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddeeeeffccccffggee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011101 111010011 1101111101 1111111011 11111111010 11101111010 01111101101 100111101 111101111 1110111101 1101100111 110010111 0100110110100 11010010100 11110101110 01001001001 111110010110 1100111010 11101111010 1111011010 1110100101 110110111 010010110 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 977
- Average number of words per stanza: 189
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my, and, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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