This is an analysis of the poem Mark Twain that begins with:
MARK TWAIN is dead! No, no, that cannot be,
Say rather Clemens knows life's mystery,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb bbaa ccdd eeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111100 1101011100 1101010101 1111110101 11011011101 1101001101 11111010101 1111110101 01110101001 0101110101 0111110111 1111011101 10101110101 1110010101 10101011101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; twain, mark, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words say, the are repeated.
The author used the same word mark at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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