This is an analysis of the poem The Lizard that begins with:
I sit among the hoary trees
With Aristotle on my knees ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcccaca ddeeffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01010111 1101001010 100111010 11000111 11011101 01010001 01010011 01110001 01010011 01010111 01010001 11010111 10010001 110101010 101101010 11010101 11010001 00110101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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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- summary of The Lizard;
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- critical appreciation.
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