This is an analysis of the poem Three-Legged Man that begins with:
Well now friends you'll never guess it so I really must confess it
I just met the sweetest woman of my long dismal life....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaccbaXXddefXfgeXdhhbXgXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101011101010 11101010011101 1010111010111010 111111100011101 11101111111 11110010101 111011101111110 11101010110101 11101111001101010 111110101111101 10101010001 11101011111 0011010011010 101110101101 1110111011111010 11110101110 1010101010101110 101010100010101 10100010101001010 1011111111101 11111011111 1010101111 1110111010101010 10000101111111 11110111011111110 111111101111111 011011101110 00110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1599
- Average number of words per stanza: 312
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, legged, of, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, 'cross are repeated.
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