This is an analysis of the poem The Bagpipe Who Didn’t Say No that begins with:
It was nine o'clock at midnight at a quarter after three
When a turtle met a bagpipe on the shoreside by the sea, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXBcccXBcccXXBXXddXXaXXBeecXBcccXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011111010101 1010101110100101 1010111 11101010 10111011 101000111110101 111011101110101 01101011 001110011 10111011 101000101011011 11101011 1110101 01111011 111111110 10111011 101000111111101 111001101111011 11100110 11100110 1011110 101000111111111 11011101010101 00111010 00111010 10111011 101000111111101 111010101111011 11101111 11111111 10111011 101011101111111 111011101111101 11111011 111111010 101010110010101 10111010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1706
- Average number of words per stanza: 334
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, her, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, is, shall are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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