This is an analysis of the poem Fame [he Held A Book In His Knotty Paws] that begins with:
He held a book in his knotty paws,
And its title grand read he:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXccb deXeddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110100101 1010111 110000101 1010010 101011 10111 1110111 11100101 1100111 11111011 1111001 11011 10110 10111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; as is repeated.
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