This is an analysis of the poem Selections From I Am! Said The Lamb that begins with:
The Donkey
I had a Donkey, that was all right,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaaa b ccddbb e eeaa X ffgg g c cchhiic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,6,1,4,1,4,1,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 110101111 1111100111 10011110111 1100100111 010 01010111 11111111 01011111 11111001 110101010 011101010 01 01010101 11010101 01010100 10110111 010 01111111 11010101 11110111 11010111 11111111 010 01010010 0011110010 101001 011001 110101 11111 1110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines chair, lizard are repeated).
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