This is an analysis of the poem Salutation The Third that begins with:
Let us deride the smugness of 'The Times': GUFFAW!
So much for the gagged reviewers,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcadXXeaf gXee XXXcdabaachXeegffheeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001101 11101010 001010111001 10 1111010010 11111 101001101 01011010 111010 11100100 1110111010 1101010010 11110011 11010101100 111011110110110 111100101 101101110 0110101001001 101 1111110111010 01011011 01010010 110101111111 101 1110111 1100100110 110111011 10110101101 1110101 111100111 101010 00010010 11010010 01011111 01011 1001011 010 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; you, let, us, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, let are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines boot is repeated).
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