This is an analysis of the poem Pretty that begins with:

Why is the word pretty so underrated?
In November the leaf is pretty when it falls....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd eXeX fbca fdgh XXhX gaff fdgf fiXfXifff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011010010 001001010101 0111001101 100101011 1101100101 01010110101 111101111 01001111101 100100101010 011111101010 10101101010101 0110111111 011001010010 01100111001 101100010011 100100110100 10111010001100 0001011110101 100101100100 010010101 0110011001 010101011 1011011000101010 10010101000110 100101101110 01010101110 1100111010100 111111010010 1010110110110 1001100111 1010010001 111101110110 110101011010 1011100110 1100010010000100 0010001001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; pretty, in, prey, not, he, eye, it, this, and, careless are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pretty is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word pretty at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Pretty;
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