This is an analysis of the poem The Little Boy And The Old Man that begins with:
Said the little boy, 'Sometimes I drop my spoon.'
Said the old man, 'I do that too.'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010110001111 10111111 0101101111 1111101011 101011101 01110111 110110111 111101001 11101001011 11111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; ', little, 'i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word said is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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