This is an analysis of The Ant Explorer by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

Once a little sugar ant made up his mind to roam-
To fare away far away, far away from home.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcCDdeeffbbeedDCcaa
  • Stanza lengths: 22,
  • Metre: 1010101110101 010110110101 111010101110101 01111101110111 11101111101 1010101110001 101010110101 1010101110101 101010110001 111010101111101 101010101010101 11111101111101 01010100011101 11110101110111 101010111101 101010110001 101010110101 101010110101 1010101110001 111011111101 01010101011101 110101011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

he, to, away, his, and

Anaphora

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