This is an analysis of the poem Grizzly Bear that begins with:
Yeah they call me Grizzly Bear got long black grizzly hair
Walk down the street and everybody stop and stare...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba aaXa cXcaaXAXXaabAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101111101 110111010111 10010111011 111101101 10111111110101 111110111101 1101111011 110111111111101 101111111110101 1111011110111111010 1101001101101 111010110110 10011111111011 1011110011010111 11101011111110111 101111110110101 010 1111011101 1111011101011 11110111011111111 01010011110101111 101111110110101 11011110111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, be, i, can't, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bear at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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