This is an analysis of the poem Mr. What's-His-Name that begins with:
They called him Mr. What's-his-name:
From where he was, or why he came,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eXcc aadd ffgg cchh iidd aagg iiee gggg ccdd ffdd ddgg ddeeXccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 01111111 11111101 11100101 11011101 00110001 11011101 10010101 01011101 01001100 11001100 01011101 01110101 01110101 11010101 11001101 11011101 11010101 1101101 11010111 11011101 11110101 11111101 10111101 011101001 101101101 01000101 01010111 11110101 01010101 11110101 01010101 11111111 10011101 01110100 11010100 11110111 01100111 11010111 010011011 11010101 11010101 01010111 11111101 11011101 10011111 10111101 01111101 01111101 10110001 11010111 10110011 11110101 10010001 01110000 11010100 11111101 01010101 11110101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, or, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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