This is an analysis of the poem The End Of Joi that begins with:

They climbed the trees . . . As was told before,
The Glugs climbed trees in the days of yore,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdddd aaeebbffff ggbbhhffff ddeebbaaaX cciXeejjjX kkeEiXdddX ffiXhhllll XXeEeXmmmm cciXeXcccc nneEeeeeeX ddllbbbXbb bbhhXXffff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111101 011100101 1010100101 101010101 010101111 1100101111 101110101 011100101 10101 1011110101 110010111 101011111 10111001 11011111 11100100101 11011001001 1110110101 010011111 11101 110011111 110110101 011100111 0100110101 1101100111 111111101 1100100111 010101111 10100100101 1101 0010100111 1100101101 1100110101 110101101 11011111 1110011101 1111100101 1110110111 010101101 11101 010010111 1110100101 001010101 110110101 110110101 11011111 111111101 111111101 1110111101 0111 1010110111 1100101111 1110100111 1010111011 11011111 1111100101 1011110101 1110110111 110101101 11101 111101101 101111101 001011111 110100101 111011111 11011101 110100101 1101101011 11111101001 11101 01101101001 1100111001 11001011110 1100110101 11011111 1111010111 0111111101 111010010001 11111011011 101001 0011101011 11011111 110111101 1111100101 1011110111 110011101 111111111 11101101011 1010100101 1111 0100111101 110011101 110010111 1100100101 11011111 111110101 110110101 11101111001 00100110111 1111 0010100011 111110111 10101001101 110100111 1011101001 110100101 1111001001 110101111 1100100101 1101 1100110111 110011101 110010101 11011111 1110101101 110100101 010111001 1110100111 010010011 10101 1111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 396
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, of, he, to, you, know are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he are 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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