This is an analysis of the poem Cocotte that begins with:
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty,
And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd aeaeaeaX eeeXafaf ghXhXeXX ahaagXgd ififgigi gbgbadad dXdXjkjk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011111110 111001111001 1111101010 1011110111 1111101001 1101101011 1111010011011 11111001001 111101011110 1011011101 11111111110 11101001001 01101001010 111100101 11111010010 1100101100 1101101011 110111101 1111001111 00110101100 1101101010 1101101011 101101010 11101110111 1111011010 011101101 1101101010 111000011111 1111101111 0100111101 0111101010 0110101100 1101001010 1111100111 11111110010 1101111010 101011001010 111101100 1101001010 110011101 11110101110 1100110101 1101111110 0100100111 11111101110 010110111 11001001010 1100111011 111101110 110100101 1101111010 101110111 111111110 101001001 1011011010 11111001 111111010 0110100110 0110111110 101101100 11111011110 10111101 1001001110 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; as, and, in, he, my, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, then, to are repeated.
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- summary of Cocotte;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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