This is an analysis of the poem Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; Iii: that begins with:

Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; III: On Laziness And Its Resultant Ills
There was a man in New York City... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbc dcdc bebe fgfg bhbh bibi chch bhbh bdXd XXeg ajaj XXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100101011100100101 110101110 01110101 110111010 01110101 110101010 01010111 100111010 110101001 110101110 110101010 100101010 1110101010 110101010 11010101 010111110 10010011 111001110 110101001 011101110 110001001 111111010 01010111 010101110 11110101 110111110 10011101 111101000 11011111 100111110 01110101 110101010 11010101 010111010 11111111 1101011 10110101 1111100100 11011111 1101111010 10110111 110111010 10011101 110110010 01001101 10 10010111 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; off, ', his are repeated.

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