This is an analysis of the poem Leetle Lac Grenier that begins with:

Leetle Lac Grenier, she 's all alone,
Right on de mountain top,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abbcc AdXdd AXXee Afgfdh ciigX cccjjXcffdh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,6,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110011101 110101 1110101101 1101101101 1111100101 1110011101 110101 1110110111 1110101101 011011100101 1110011101 110101 1011111100 011011101 11110110101 1110011101 1101101 1010011011 1 110110111 01011011100 111001111 1001001 10110110101 0111000101 11110101111 1110010101 110101 1101011111 1010011111 1111110101 111001111 1111 11101101011 11110101101 1101111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, an', i are repeated.

    The author used the same word leetle at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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