This is an analysis of the poem Pot And Kettle that begins with:
Come close to me, dear Annie, while I bind a lover's knot.
A tale of burning love between a kettle and a pot....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eefX aafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101110101 01010101010101 01110101010101 11110101110101 01110101110101 11010100010101 1111010111101 11110101110101 1111010111101 1111110101101 11011101110111 1100101111111110 101110101010101 11110111110101 10111010111111 11111101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
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; and, cuckoo, for, as, my are 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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