This is an analysis of the poem The Dong With A Luminous Nose that begins with:
When awful darkness and silence reign
Over the great Gromboolian plain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbc ddeffef bbeegGhhehX ijkjlXijhhIMIM elhhlcccjjccaakkIMIM flfXkeaacX bbjjeejllllfffff hhnnaaeegGffeeeEEX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,11,14,20,10,16,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110101101 10011001 1011101 1010101 11110101 1111101001 00100101 11011101 111101001 010101001 100111 0100111 101100101 010101 10010101 100101011 1101100101 011011101 1111111110 0111011010 110111001 1101 1100110101 1101 1100100100 1001 0111011 1110100101 1101111 1010100110 1011101001 1010101 1011111 110110101 00101101101 1011111 10110101 111110111 11101001 100100111 1010101 11010111 0010100101 011111 111111111 1010010111 0011110111 1010101101 1010101101 1011110101 10101101 101001011 1111101010 10010101 1111110101 1011111 10110101 111110111 11101001 110111001 010111 101011101 11110110 11111101 11110111 10101101011 1011110101 1010111111 101111011100 100101001 11010111 101111111 1100100101 10100111 11110101 011110110 010101101 1101001001 0010101010 00100101010 1101 00101 0010101001 101110101 010110101 11111111 10111101 1010100111 1110100101 110111101 010010101 10111111 01001001 1111101110 0111011010 111101001 100110101 1000101111 11001001 100100111 11 11 1100100100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 481
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 103
- 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; dong, and, far, nose, night are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines goes is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word sieve at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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