This is an analysis of the poem The Three Little Pigs that begins with:
The animal I really dig,
Above all others is the pig....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefXXXX ddXXgghhii XXX XjcccXX hhXXffhhhhXXjjhhgXXXhh jXhXhhkX ggkX hhiiXeiigghXXggffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,10,3,7,22,8,4,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001101 01110001 11101110 11100110 1110101 11011001 11010111 01010111 11010111 01110101 01110101 11111101 111011111 11101111011 111111111111 01010101 1110101 11010111 11010111 11110111 110010111 110101010 010111110 01010111 10110101 111011111 11101111011 111111111111 01110111 11010111 01010101 11111111 11111101 010111110 110110010 11010111 11011101 111111010 111101100 110100101 01010101 01110101 010101001 11110101 11110101 11111101 11111110 11111111 01111011 11110111 11010101 11100101 110101000 11111111 11010101 110110111 01001101 10111101 10110111 11111111 11111111 110101101 11111111 11110101 11111111 11011111 11010111 11100111 110110110 01110101 11011101 01110101 11001101 01010101 11110001 110101110 110100010 11110101 11100101 11010101 11111101 11011101 11000101 11110111 11011101 11110101 110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; pigs, his, pig, ', i'll, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pigs, a, i'll are repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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