This is an analysis of the poem The Lung Fish that begins with:
The Honorable Ardleigh Wyse
Was every fisherman's despair; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXdXdXdd cecebb fdfdgg eaXaXX hghgdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01000101 110010001 11011101 01110001 11110101 1110111010 11011011 01111111 01011111 011010100 010010111 101111111 101000101 01110111 11010111 11110111 11111101 11111101 101111111 01010101 11010101 11010111 11010001 11010001 11110101 01010101 11011100 01010001 11110101 010101010 010000111 01110101 01000101 11000111 1000111101 010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is 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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