This is an analysis of the poem Pau-Puk-Keewis that begins with:

You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis,
He, the handsome Yenadizze,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabcdXeXXfXgfXhgijeXkhXeegfllffmfmleemifamXjemjemjfmaXXniejXXlfeehfblXXXehXmfjFJieibXXeFJiXleXhmeejjXheeXeXXeXfljiXXjeLeejJXgelXfeXefXeXjheeXglleXgfjXleXXhXejhXeeiXeXgJjXXieLeXehXiXbiXgXiXkieljdhnjmniaeiXXXcdflXlamljifdhfjleflXXXmejjebgXXmcdoeeeeXejXoeXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 261,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110 1010100 10101011 10100010 11101010 10101010 10101000 10100010 101011 10101010 10101110 10101110 01110010 11101010 10101010 10101010 11100110 1110010 10101010 10101010 00111110 10100010 10111010 0010110 100001010 00100010 11100010 01001010 11101010 11110010 11101010 001001010 101011000 10101110 10101010 00100010 11101010 10101111 10111110 10101010 111010010 10111010 10111010 1011001110 101111011 10111010 10101010 11111011 10111010 10100110 11111011 10101010 11101010 11001010 001100110 1010101110 11101011 1011001010 10011010 10010010 10100011 101010100 10101011 11101010 10101110 10001110 11110110 10101010 11001110 11000111 11111000 11101010 11101000 11100110 10101110 10101000 10111110 10101010 00101110 11100010 10101011 10101010 101111010 11110010 10110011 10101000 111111100 10111010 11100010 10101011 10101010 101101100 101000011 11101010 111111100 11101010 10101010 101010010 1001010010 101001111 10100111 1001001110 100101110 111010010 111010010 1110110 11101010 11110110 11111110 11101110 011011100 11111010 10111011 11101010 11111110 1010100 10101110 011011000 00101110 10111010 10101010 11101110 10111011 10101111 10101110 101101110 011001010 11100010 11101000 10101110 10101110 11101011 10101110 10101010 101011100 110100110 11010010 100101011 101010011 10101010 10101011 1010110 1001101010 1001101111 10101011 10001010 10101100 10101010 10101010 11101011 10101100 101000011 10100010 10111000 10101010 10101010 10101110 10111010 10001110 11101110 11101000 11101010 10101010 11000110 101101110 10101010 1010110110 10111110 10101111 11111010 10101000 1010010 10111010 10001010 10111010 10101110 1001011110 10001010 101101010 101010100 111011100 00101110 11110010 00101010 10101010 10101010 10101110 10101011 10101010 11101010 00101010 00101010 00111011 11101010 10101010 10101010 11111011 11101110 10101010 01111011 101010010 10101011 1001010 101001110 10111110 1011010100 10111110 00101010 100101010 10101010 11000110 101011000 10111010 10111010 101001110 1010010 00110010 10101010 11010010 10101010 00101110 10101010 10111011 10100010 10111010 10101110 10101110 11010100 10101000 10101110 10101010 10100010 10101011 11101011 10100011 10101010 10001110 11101010 1010011 10101110 10101110 00101010 10101111 10111010 101101010 10111010 10101010 11101010 1001010 11111011 11110110 11101111 10011110 11101010 10101011 11110011 10101010 101001110 10101110 10100110 10101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8970
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1536
  • Amount of lines: 261
  • 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; his, and, of, tired, various, played, all, gone are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, on, danced, how, smote, once, tired, two, all, white, thus, many, have, i, played, of, in, t, ugh, red, by, with, no, gone, as, whistling, threw are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines heaven, him, waters, heavens are repeated).

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