This is an analysis of the poem Ode To My Socks that begins with:

Mara Mori brought me
a pair of socks...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcbdcXbebXfccabdeghb gccXbddgeXbgc bXfbh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,13,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011 0101 111001 001001 1111110 1111000 1010110 1001011110 1001 11011101 111 1111 11101 10110 110 11010001 111001 101101011 1110110100 1101010 10010011010 01101 1001101001010 01011111 1101 11101 101 10100101010 0010111110 101100110 10100010 1110010111 001110001 11111111 0010011111 01001100 100110 11000100 100010011 101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 389
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words two, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase firemen connects the lines.

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