This is an analysis of the poem One Inch Tall that begins with:
If you were only one inch tall, you'd ride a worm to school.
The teardrop of a crying ant would be your swimming pool....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbA ccdddA eebbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010111110101 01000101101101 01011001 11110111 011001001 010111 01010111110101 10110101011001 01011011 11010101 11010111 010111 11010101010101 11011101110101 11010101 01011111 010111001 001111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you'd is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word tall at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of One Inch Tall;
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- history of its creation;
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