This is an analysis of the poem The Triantiwontigongolope that begins with:
There's a very funny insect that you do not often spy,
And it isn't quite a spider, and it isn't quite a fly;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabAaXX ccddbAaXX eeffbAaXX ccggbaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111111101 100010101000101 001010101010101 11010101110101 01010111110111 11 1 11010 1000000 01111101110101 01010101010001 11110100011101 11111001110001 101110100010111 11 1 11010 1000000 01001100110101 001110101010101 011101100010101 101111100110101 11001100010111 11 1 11010 1000000 101110101110001 111010101111011 110011111110110 001110101011101 01010101110111 11 1 11010 1000000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; it, and, like, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tri, it are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word triantiwontigongolope at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase tri connects the lines.
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