This is an analysis of the poem The Merman that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a aabbaab X acbcdbdaaXaaX X eeXeXXXXaXbbaaaXffaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,1,13,1,20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110 0111 1001 1001 00101 1101 101 1 1100111 111110111 1111100101 110100101 111101101 11110101 111100101 1100111001 110011111 10001000 1111100101 0011110101 101101000 1 11010111 1011110101 1101100101 10111 1110100101 111101111 1010100100 11110101100 101101111 1010100100 11110101 101100101 110101011 110101101 110111111 100100 11010111 1101010101 110111001 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, would, in, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, i, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alone is repeated).
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