This is an analysis of the poem The Madman's Song that begins with:
Oh, let us howl some heavy note,
Some deadly-dogged howl, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11011 101001001 011101 11011111 111111 110111011 1100011 11101111 110101 11110101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 399
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
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