This is an analysis of the poem I Want It Now that begins with:
Gooses, geeses
I want my geese to lay gold eggs for easter...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb ccddd e XXXfgE ggcccE bXhgh ahah ddfff eXEE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,1,6,6,5,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 11110111110 1101001 1101 1101 11011 11111 111011 101111 11 1101 11010 1100 101001 1010011 10011 1101 11011 11010 110110 011010 10011 1101 11011 11010 110111 111010 11010010010 1101011 10111011110 01001 1101 11011 10110 111010 011110 11 1111101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- 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; and, i, want are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, don't are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines feast, nuts, world, works, now are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word now at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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