This is an analysis of the poem Strip Teaser that begins with:
My precious grand-child, aged two,
Is eager to unlace one shoe,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXb cccddc XXeXcX ffgffg ggcgXX hhieei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 01001011 11010 01011101 01011000 010 01011101 10010101 1101 11100011 11000101 1101 01001110 1101110 0111 0101010 00110101 1101 11110101 11010111 0101 11110011 01001111 1111 11110101 11110101 0101 11000111 11010100 101000 110111111 01011101 1001 10010101 01010101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her 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 Strip Teaser;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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