This is an analysis of the poem Mercury And The Elephant that begins with:
As Merc'ry travell'd thro' a Wood,
(Whose Errands are more Fleet than Good) ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccc ddddaaaaeeffeeffcc bb gggcc bbddhhaaXccbb Xffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,18,2,5,13,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11011110 11000111 11010101 01001101 11111111 110111001 11010101 01111101 00110101 11110101 11010101 10110101 11010111 11111111 101111001 11110101 01010101 111001001 11010101 11010101 110100101 101011111 11010101 01111101 11000111 01001110 11101111 11110101 11010101 10011101 01010101 101011111 11001101 01010101 100100111 11100101 11110001 11110101 11011101 11011111 11010010 11100101 11111011 01110101 01010101 11000101 01110101 11110101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; in is repeated.
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