This is an analysis of the poem A Change Of Air that begins with:
Now, a man in Oodnadatta
He grew fat, and he grew fatter,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXba XXabXXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10101000 11111110 111010101110 1010100 10111011 101010101010 10101000 1110100 11100110 10101111 1010100 01101000 11101111 00100010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; he is repeated.
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