This is an analysis of the poem My Treasures that begins with:

These nuts, that I keep in the back of the nest,
Where all my tin soldiers are lying at rest, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbee ffee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11111001001 11111011011 0100101111 001001101001 01011111001 101001101001 001001001011 0111101101 01001101011 101011011101 111001111011 111001001001 10111001001 111011001101 11001011011 101111001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; in, of, it, and are repeated.

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