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

At dusk I saw a craintive mouse
That sneaked and stole around the house;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb Xcdd ccbb bXXX eeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 11110101 11110101 10110111 11000100 10111111 110010101 110000101 11011101 11110111 10110101 111100111 11110111 1111101010 01110101 11110110 110111010 110111010 00111101 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of My White Mouse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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