This is an analysis of the poem The Owners Of The Little Box that begins with:

Line the inside of the little box
With your precious skin ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX bXc dee dbX XcXdaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,3,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100100101 01101 111010 11110111 11100010 10111101 11001 11101010 11010101 110101 011110101 111101010 00110001 1110110 111111 11110 011110 0010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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; her is repeated.

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