This is an analysis of the poem Didus Ineptus that begins with:
Absurd, magnificent, and huger
than swan or turkey-cock, this flightless antique pigeon...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcbXXXXadadaXeadXfcefXdeaabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100110 1111010100110 11100101010 0101101001110 011101 1001010 1110110101 1001010111 1010111 1100110100 010100001010 1011011101110 0101010 1001010100 010101110 110011100 101101 0101110101 1101010101 0101010 010101010111 101010101000 110101110 10110101010 1101110101 1111 1100011101 00010110 11001101010 11010 10011000001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1194
- Average number of words per stanza: 201
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and are repeated.
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- summary of Didus Ineptus;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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