This is an analysis of the poem The Donkey And His Panniers that begins with:
A Donkey, whose talent for burdens was wondrous,
So much that you'd swear he rejoic'd in a load,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cXcX XdXd cXXX cacX cdaX eded eXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110110110 11111101001 111011010110 11011011101 01011011001 110010010010 11001101001 1100010011110 1101111100101000 11001001001 1101101111010 11101001011 110101111010 11001001001 01111000100100 1110110010010 010110011110 101101101011 011010010110 100010100001000 11101101100 01111011111 10011011011010 011011110110 11011001011 11001011001 111110001011 001011001101 11011011111 101101011111 101001011111 1110010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; for, of, as are repeated.
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