This is an analysis of the poem An Error In Creation that begins with:

There was once a man who made a weird machine,
Employing dynamite and kerosene.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaa bbXXb XcddX eeffe XcffX aagga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101110101 0101011101 0100010 10100010 10101111011 0101001101 0111010001 0101010 11001110 00111110111 110101001 0101010111 10101010 10101010 1010101010 10101010101 00101011101 1011010 10101010 11111010101 100100110 1101010011 10101010 11101010 001000101 1101010001 0101110101 11100010 11101010 101010010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of An Error In Creation;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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