This is an analysis of the poem Potato Bug Exterminators that begins with:
During the summer of 1883 we were walking along past a large field of
potatoes in North Oxford, where we beheld the strange spectacle of a ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcXdabXXef ggXXccff Xgddggee XgcchhXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100110100110110 010011011100110000 101010111011101111 101011001010100110100 110101010110010 10101010100100010100 10001010010001010000 10010111101010101 1010001101111000 101000100001111 1010101011010 10101 11111101 11011111 1010111 01111101 01101010 00111110 11010111 11010011 110011111 11000111 11010111 11101011 11100111 11010111 11111010 11010010 11011111 11010111 101110101 11010101 11010111 10011111 11111110 10110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, and are repeated.
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