This is an analysis of the poem The Pigs And The Charcoal-Burner that begins with:

The old Pig said to the little pigs,
'In the forest is truffles and mast,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaX cdad XcXcXbaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011100101 101001011 101111101 1011 011101001 001101 1101110101 101 111011101 101001 1010010110 1101 111110111 10101 11001001 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words follow, and 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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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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