This is an analysis of the poem Little Tim Trotter that begins with:

Little Tim Trotter was born in the West,
Where the prairie lies sunny and brown;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd bebefgfg ghghfafa ijijgcgc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011001 101011011 1011011001 001001001 11011011011 1010010110 11011011111 0011010010 1011011001 11001011 101011011011 101101001 101101101001 111001111 11111101011 101101001 1011011001 1010111101 11001101011 111010101 01100101011 101011001 001001001001 11011101 1011011011 111001101 101101111011 01101001 111001001011 101001001 11011011001 101001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word little at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Little Tim Trotter;
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  • history of its creation;
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