This is an analysis of the poem Ticklish Tom that begins with:
Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom?
He got tickled by his mom. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeXXXfcffccXeggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111001 1110101 1011011101 1111101 1010111 1110101 1111101 1111101 10111001 11110101 110111110 1011110 11111101 1011101 1010101 1110101 10100101 1010101 1010111 1010111 10010101 1110111 1010101 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 838
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, tickled, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words laughed, tickled are repeated.
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