This is an analysis of the poem The Quangle Wangle's Hat that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: aababccddX cAcaaaaXX aeaebBbbX afafggbBX hihibXbbX cAXXjjaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 101001001 01101 1011111 10100101 10110101111 01011011001 111101111 111111001101 001101 01101 001101001 1011011 10010111 1001011101001 1101100101 1010110101 101110101010 101101 111001001 10110010 1111010011 1001110010 10110111101 1110111 1011111101 101100100111 1110100 101001001 10101101 0110101 011011 01100111 110011101 1111111101 1110111 111010 1010111 1011111 10101001 101001001 101011101 10101100101 10100110101 111110101 0011010 101101 001101001 1011101 10010011010 111101001101 1100100101 10111001001 11011011010 001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, mr, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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