This is an analysis of the poem By The Groundhog that begins with:
Don't smoke your hams till you 've killed the pig ;
Do n't buy the carpet till the roof is thatched ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 11101010101 11100110101 11101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 67
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; till, n't are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word do is repeated.
The author used the same word do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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