This is an analysis of the poem The Dukite Snake that begins with:
Well, mate, you’ve asked about a fellow
You met to-day, in a black-and-yellow...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeff ccffddgg gghhiiddiiiiiiddiicc iijjkkccfffffkkggkkllffeeccffXm iicceeff ffhhffjjffcc jjmmccnniikk eeeeXb iiieeXcc iicckXkk ddXjfff ffk Xccffjjggfff fkkdodffo kkkkcckknnffXccffggbbkkddjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,20,31,8,12,12,6,8,8,7,3,12,9,27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111101010 1101001110 11100101 1011101001 011111111 1011111001 1111110111 10100100101 111101111 1011101111 01001111011 11111101001 1110011111 1110101111 11101101001 0110011111 0010111011 1111111101 1011101001 1110100101 1110101111 10100110101 1011011111 11101001101 111111111 101001101011 11010001001 110101101 0101101111 1100101101 111011111010 0111001111 1100101001 1101101001 1101001011 10100111011 1110101101 101011110 111111111 0101110101 1111011101 11110001011 0111110101 1100100111 1010010111 1101100101 00101101101 0101111111 1101110111 0100110111 0010011101 1101101101 1111111101 0010010011 1111101101 111101111 1110110101 1110110111 1111101111 1110100011 1111101101 0010110101 11111011010 1111010100 111101111 1111011111 1101111101 1111111111 0111101001 1111100111 1111111111 1111100101 0010101101 0111011111 1011111101 1011110101 11101111101 1010111111 0111100101 0011110110 1111101101 11101100111 10101001101 1111111101 0110110101 1011111111 1110101111 111111101 0101101001 1100101111 0101100111 11001001011 1010010100 0100110101 11011001001 11111001001 0110101100 1101100111 1111100101 11011011001 0011111011 1101111101 1110101101 1111100101 11100100111 111001010010 1110010010 1010010101 1110110101 110101101 0111101101 11011101001 1010111101 1110110111 10101111111 10110111001 00100101001 11111001101 10010111111 10110101111 01100101110 11101000111 1111110110 1010111111 1111111101 111110111 111101001 1111101001 11101111001 0111111001 00100111001 1101100101 1110011111 0100110111 0110111011 1110110110 1110100111 11111011001 01101001101 1111110101 1100111001 11001101101 1011100101 1011111101 00111100101 00100101001 11101111111 1110110111 1100111111 1110110111 1011111001 0110100101 011110111 0110100101 0111011101 1111001001 1111111011 1110100101 1100101101 110100101 1110111101 1111100111 1110111111 010011101 0111101101 1111011111 1110111011 1111101001 111011111 11101110111 111011111 110110111 1110111111 1010110101 1110100101 1100110101 1111111101 1100110111 01011001111 1100101011 10110101011 11100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 500
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 182
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, s, that, and, how, him, for, he, his, heart, to, had, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and, he, the, that are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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