This is an analysis of the poem The Picnic that begins with:

DE picknock oud at Spraker's Wood:-
It melt de soul und fire de plood. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX ccbb XXXX aadd XeXf gggX Xchh ggfX XaiX ggfX ggaa aajj XXgX kXcc lleX kXgg XiXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 010111001 111010111 11011101 1111010101 01100101 01110101 11111101 11111101 11001111 11101110 11101100 101010101 01110100 10110111 111010101 011110101 111111101 111110111 101101101 01110111 11010110 11110111 1110100100 10101011 101010111 11011101 111110101 11010100 11011111 1111011111 1111011110 11110101 111010111 11111101101 011111111 0100111010 110011110110 11111111 110111010 11011110100 110110101 111000110 01110101 01111101 11011110111 111100111 1111011110011 11110101 11011101 1011101001 1100100100 11011101 111111110 111111011 0111100101 1111100111 01011111 110110111 111011101 110111101 11111101 110111001 1111011101 1111111101 10111101 110101001 1100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; de, und, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word dey is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ischt, in are repeated).

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  • summary of The Picnic;
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