This is an analysis of the poem The Rude Rat And The Unostentatious Oyster that begins with:
Upon the shore, a mile or more
From traffic and confusion,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXXcd ccXccded fbaXedXfcd fgfgcXfgXXXdXgcgcbdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 0101010 11010111 0101010 11110100 0101010 11110111 1111010 01010101 1101010 01010101 0001010 01010101 1101010 11011111 0111010 11111101 1101010 01011101 1101010 11011101 0100010 01010101 1 1 01010 01011101 11011 1 1 01010101 01010 1 1 11011111 1101110 01011101 0101010 11011111 1101011 11011101 0111011 01011101 0101110 010011111 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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