This is an analysis of the poem Whales that begins with:
The ways of the learned to me are 'Greek,'
And professors and such amaze me.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010111 101011011 1101100111 111011111 1100101111 111101010 01001011001 101101110 111001101001 1010110010 001111001001 101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; me is repeated.
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