This is an analysis of the poem Fungi From Yuggoth that begins with:

I. The Book
The place was dark and dusty and half-lost... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXcbbcXb dedebb b cfcfagag hihijj g bkbkgcgX ciXXjj l iffXiffi llllgg j miimmiim bmmbbX d fifihlhl bhbhnX h liliidid klklii b hoohhooh lbblmm i kcckgbbg blblii c ahahfggf ciicaa h lkklemem bgbgii p qXkqedde gcgcff X ckkcckkX cffcff c Xcccffff effegg X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,1,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101 0111110111 0100110101 1001110001 1011011111 1101011111 11001011101 100101100 01001011101 11011001001 1101011101 100110011101 1101001101 1101110101 1111010111 101 1101011111 0101010101 1001010101 0101011101 11010011001 1111011101 1101110111 1001010111 1111110111 0111001101 1111110101 1011011100 01110101110 11011011010 101 1111110001 0111111111 1111110101 0101110101 1101110101 0101110111 11010000111 1111011100 11011101110 0111111111 10010101100 10110001000 011111111100 010101001100 11010 0111011101 1111110011 1001111011 01011101100 0101110111 1111011101 1101010101 1110011011 1101011111 1111110011 1101111111 1101010111 0101110011 1111111011 1110 0101111111 00110011101 1011011101 01010001111 11001010111 110110010111 1111111101 1111110111 1011011101 1111010101 11110010101 1101110101 1011011001 11110111111 101 1101011101 1101110111 1011010101 11001010011 1111111101 01000100101 10011000101 1101010011 10010101001 0111111101 1111001101 1101010101 0111101111 0111111101 1101 0111110011 0100010111 1111010101 0101010111 1100010101 0111010111 1011010111 1011111101 1101111101 1001110101 10110100001 1111011011 1111110111 01110011111 101 11001011101 1101110101 1111111111 0111110001 1111100101 1110010111 1100110011 1110111111 1101100101 0111110111 0100111101 1111010101 0111111101 1111110101 1011 0101011101 0101011101 10111110001 0101110101 01011101011 0111111100 1101011101 0011110110 0111101111 1101110101 1100010101 0011110101 1101000101 1101110111 101010 1111011101 11000101110 1101010111 110001001110 01010010001 1011010111 0101000101 1101110101 11110010101 1111011011 1101110111 1111010111 0101111101 1111011101 101 1011111101 1101111101 0101011111 1111110101 1101111101 1111100101 11001111111 11110000111 10010011101 1011110101 1111010111 1011101111 1111011111 0111110101 1010 1111010111 1100010101 11010101011 1101010101 1111011101 0111010111 1111011101 1101011111 1001010101 1111100101 1101011111 1011010101 1111010001 1001110101 1100 0101110011 1101010011 1011010101 01010101010 01010101110 01011110001 0101010111 0111101000110 00011101010 110001100101 1011010101 10110101010 1111110101 1101110111 111 00010100111 1001010111 1111010101 1101010011 0111010101 11011101001 1001000101 1100101101 00010111101 1101010111 11010110100 1101110101 1111110101 0101011101 1100 10110111010 0011010101 10010111110 111110101 10110111110 1101100111 11110111010 1111010101 01110111010 1101010111 10110101110 0111111111 1101011101 1111010101 1010 0111010110 0111110111 1001111101 1111010101 1001111101 1101111111 10011001001 0110010111 1101110101 0111111011 1111010101 10010011101 11111111100 1011011111 10100 1011110101 1011000101 010011010101 11010010101 10010110111 0011010111 1011001101 1101111101 1101000111 1101111111 10110101001 1101111111 1011110101 1101011101 101001 0111110100 11100101110 11010101010 11001110111 11011101010 1101010101 11010100111 01011101010 1101111111 10010111001 1101111101 1111010101 11011011111 1111110101 101 11011111110 0111101111 1011011101 11100111110 11111100101 11010111010 01010101110 0111011111 11011111110 1111011101 10111110010 01010101101 1110010111 1101010111 111 1011111101 110011101001 1111001001 1111010101 1101010111 00111100011 1011110100 01110101001 100110111 1001011101 1101010111 1011010101 1101011111 1101110101 11000 1101010101 0111010101 1011110001 1101011111 1101101001 1101111111 1101010111 1111011101 1001010101 0101010101 0111111001 1101010001 11011100101 01001011101 1100 10010101011 1011000101 11011101011 1101001111 10110101010 1111111101 11110111110 01001001111 111000001110 0011100101 11010111010 1111000101 1101000101 1001110101 101 11110100010 1111010111 111101010010 11001010111 1011011001010 10001011101 11110111110 1001010101 11110101100 1111110111 11010101110 0101111101 1111110011 1111111001 1001 1101101101 1101010101 0111010101 0101110101 1011110101 1101111111 1101110101 1011010111 1111010111 0001010101 1011010101 0011011101 1101111101 0111000101 111 10111101111 1110011111 0100011101 10010111001 11010101110 1001110101 11110010001 01111110111 1111011101 1111010111 1011101101 11101101001 10111100111 1100111101 10100 11001010101 1101010101 1101010101 1001110111 1101011111 1101010001 11011100001 1111110101 1101111101 1100110101 11100100011 1111110111 10111001101 1111111111 101011 0111011111 1011010101 1111010101 1111110101 1111101101 10011001001 1011011101 1001000101 0111010101 0101110101 0110011111 1111011101 1001111111 1111110101 10100 1101111111 01010010001 1001000101 10001110110 1001010100 1011011101 110101000 1001110111 0001111101 1100111101 1101111101 11011110110 11010111110 11110101110 1010 11001010101 0111101101 10110000101 01111101001 1101011101 1101010001 1101010101 1011111111 1101110111 1011011100 1101010101 1111110111 11011100101 01101110101 111 1101010111 1111010111 10110101101 0011010100 1011110111 1011011101 1101010101 1001111111 11010101010 1011010101 1101011101 010100101110 1101011111 0101010100 1010 0101110111 1111010111 1001110101 0101110101 1011010101 11001111101 0101001101 1101010101 1111111101 1011010101 0111000101 1101110101 1101110101 1001111101 110010 0101110001 11111001001 11001010101 1111010101 1111010101 1111000101 1111011111 11001000101 11011011101 1101110101 1001110011 1101001101 01111111001 0111010001 11010 1011110101 0101011101 1011110111 11001010101 10010100101 11111000101 0101010101 10010100101 11001110101 01110011111 1001011101 0111011001 1110110101 1111111101 1010 0111011101 1111010101 11001010011 1100110101 1111110101 010011100101 1101011100 1011110101 1001111110 11110101001 0101110111 0111110101 1111110111 1111011101 1101 1100110101 1011110110 0111010101 11100101001 1111110101 11111100001 0101110100 1100011101 01110101001 11001111111 110110100111 0111110111 1111110101 1101001111 110100 1001010101 0111011111 01001010100 1101010111 011101000 1101110110 01010100011 1101011101 0111110101 1111010101 1101011101 01001011011 0111111111 0011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 108
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 540
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, we, to, where, of, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, where, i, and are repeated.

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