This is an analysis of the poem The Deficit Demon that begins with:
It was the lunatic poet escaped from the local asylum,
Loudly he twanged on his banjo and sang with his voice like a saw-mill, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccdXe abfX Xdef cfeX gdXg XgXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010110010010010 101101011110011011 110101111110010011 11010010010011010 110010010110010010 101100110100110010 1111011101010110100 111110110010110110 111110010011010011 1001011111011011 110101010100100100 1010110010011110010 10011011110011011 100111011011011 1001001110010010 111100101010010010 1001001111101000100 111100101000010010 10011010011010010 01011011111011011 111001010111000110010 1000010001101000111100010 110011010111110010 11110101101100100010 1101010100100010 011110110111010010 011010011111110011 1011011011101101101000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 72 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, he, and, in, his, to are repeated.
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