This is an analysis of the poem Helping that begins with:
Agatha Fry, she made a pie
And Christopher John helped bake it...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb Xbab CbCb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 11001110 10011101 11001110 110011101 11001110 110011101 11001110 1110100101 110101 1110100101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; kind, of, help are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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