This is an analysis of the poem Tarantula, Or The Dance Of Death that begins with:
During the plague I came into my own.
It was a time of smoke-pots in the house ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac bdbd cbcb dada aaaa eaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110011 0101011001 0101001101 1001 1001011101 10010101001 1101110011 1101 0101010111 1101110111 11001010011 1101 1001000111 101100100001 0101011001 0101 1001110101 0001010101 11001011101 1101 1101010101 0101010001 1011010111 0101 11101010101 010001010 110110111 0011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; of is repeated.
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