This is an analysis of the poem The Little Box that begins with:
The little box gets her first teeth
And her little length ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX cde eeaf dcX bfggXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011 10101 10110100 110111 010101010 01011101 01010 111101010 1010010 1011010101 10111001 0101010011 110110 101010101 100101 110110101 1110010010 1001010 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; little, bigger, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, you 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.
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- summary of The Little Box;
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