This is an analysis of the poem The Town Of Nothing-To-Do that begins with:
THEY say somewhere in the distance fair,
Is the town of Nothing-to-Do,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXe dbfbagcg hiXidbhb bhXhafXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100101 00101001 1011111001 1011111 111110101 111111 110011101 1100101 011110101 00101001 1100110101 10101111 1010110111 10101101 1100111111 0101101 1010110101 01101101 1110101111 0110101 111100101 11101001 1111110101 1010101 110011111 11001110 0010110101 10101010 101011101 11011110 1111110101 01001110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be, or, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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