This is an analysis of the poem The Red-Haired Man that begins with:
There was a red-haired man who had no eyes or ears.
Neither did he have any hair, so he was called red-haired theoretically. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX aX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111111111 10011101111111101000 110111101011001101 110101101111111011111111111111101010111011 111110111101001 010101111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 79 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, had, no, have, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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