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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