This is an analysis of the poem The Nonsense Verse that begins with:
At the door of my own little hovel,
Reading a novel I sat;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd bebeXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111010 1001011 111110010 01101011 111010010 0101101 11010110 001001001 1111001 1100101 11101111 11100101 001111100 1100111 1111011111 11001011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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