This is an analysis of the poem Little Mouse that begins with:

Get along leetle mouse, kick de snow up
behin' you... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbcXcbXdecaf gahcich bfjij bXcdXX jicbbeb XchXh Xhajbca abXib gabiaa ckcbckjb dffeXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,5,6,7,5,7,5,6,8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111011 101 10110111100 1 101101101101 1 10110011011 1 011110011111 10 11111011110 10 1111010010111 111100110 11011101011 1 11100111101 11110110110 10 111011110 11 10111010101 10 11110100101 111010011110 10101110111 11111111101 10 1110101110 1 101101011110 11011111010 111111111 110 110111110 1 1111101001 10 11101110111 11010111010 1111110100 1 111110010110 01011111101 111111101 10 111101111 111101111101 10 1111101100 1 11011010011111 101101111011 11110110111 10 1111111101 110111101001 1 1100101011 011011011010 10011101110 1 11111101110 11 1011111110 1 11110101100 11 11101101101 1 1101101101110 11111101101 1 1111111101010 1101110111 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; de, you, he, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Little Mouse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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