This is an analysis of the poem The Little Big Man that begins with:
I am small because I am a little child. I shall be big when I am
as old as my father is....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcXdXaXbXXXaXddXaXdXcXXXXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101011101111 1111100 11001111001111 1110 11111111111111101 11111010100 110010111110101 1110110 11111110011010 1 1100110101111001 111111010 11101011101111110 1110011000 10011011101011110 110 1001001111101001 11111101001011 10011011011010 111010011111111 1011111001100 100100111110011 1110110 0010110010100111 1011110100111001 10111101 11110010011011111 11100 10011111101101 1110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1525
- Average number of words per stanza: 289
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, he, mother, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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