This is an analysis of the poem There Is A Fanatic Clinging Onto A Madness that begins with:
There is a fanatic clinging onto a madness...
As if no roof to a ceiling exists....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAABB XbXAAAXBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101010010 1011001001 1010110111101 010101 1011100011 111101011 01001 01000111011010 1000101010010 1011001001 1010110111101 010101 1011100011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
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