This is an analysis of the poem The Comfort Of Obscurity that begins with:
INSPIRED BY READING MR. KIPLING'S POEMS AS
PRINTED IN THE NEW YORK PAPERS...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XXaab XXccb acdXXddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101010101 10001110 11010100 1111000 1101010 1010 111 11010100 11011100 1101010 1010 111 1101 0100011 0101011 1010100 1010111 11001 101111 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Comfort Of Obscurity;
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