This is an analysis of the poem The Boa Constrictor Song that begins with:
I'm being swallered by a Boa Constrictor
a Boa Constrictor, a Boa Constrictor...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaAbXXXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101001010010 010010010010 0101001010010 1111111 11110011 11110011 1101100110 1101110011 11110011 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; boa, constrictor, oh, he, swallered, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines constrictor is repeated).
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