This is an analysis of the poem There Was An Old Man Of Calcutta that begins with:
There was an old man of Calcutta,
Who perpetually ate bread & butter;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110110 1010001110 1011010111110 1110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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