This is an analysis of the poem The Disillusioned Fuse that begins with:
Beneath a lamp in Spring-street, on a recent calm spring night,
I came unwittingly upon a most pathetic sight;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX ddeeXX XXXfdd XXggaa hhXXcc ddiiXX jjXdkX llaXeX ddkkdX kkbbXX hXaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101001110101011 11010001010101 01010001010101 11010111110111 11110101111111 11110110111110 11111101010111 11010111011111 01011111111101 11110101111111 11110101111111 11011100110111 110010111111110 11110111011101 11011101011101 0110101111111 10111101010101 11011111110101 11001101110101 11100101111101 11111101111101 11010111110101 11011101111101 11010111110111 11011111111101 01111111110111 11111111101111 11110101111110 11111011111101 11111111111111 11001101110111 10111101111101 11111111110001 11111101111101 11111100111111 11110101111001 11011101111101 11110111111111 11111101111011 111111010111001 11111101011111 110111111101010 11111111101111 11111110111101 11101111110111 11111111110100 11111101101111 111101111101010 11111111110111 11011111111111 11101101101101 11111111010101 11111111111101 11010111111011 10111101111010 11011101110101 11101101011011 10111111110001 10111111110111 11110110111101 11010101110101 11110100110111 101100111010111 11000100110001 11010111100101 01110010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, you, i, wanted, ter, an', 'e, ', jus', sez, yer, wus, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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