This is an analysis of the poem Rhyme-Smith that begins with:
Oh, I was born a lyric babe
(That last word is a bore -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXX bXbXcXcc dedeeefX gfgfhhhX iidd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 111001 0101010000 110101 0100110010 110100110 11100011110 11101101110 01110011 01010111 11010111 01000100 111100010 110111010100 110100010 110001110 10011111 10010111 11010001 110001 101010111 11000111 10101110101 1111011100 11111101 011101111 11011101 110111110 110101000 110101010 010101010 110111100 111101010 110111110 11001011 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words said, my, and are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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