This is an analysis of the poem Fit The Eighth (Hunting Of The Snark ) that begins with:
The Vanishing
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ababcdcd efeX eXeX gXgX hXhX aiai efeXXiiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100 11001011001 10100111 1100100111 1100111 1100110111 101001011 11001101001 10111101 1001001000101 101011101 101001101001 111001010 11001101001 1111010010 110111011001 101001001 01101111001 001111011 1011010100010 111011001 10010101111011 111110001 11001001011 10100110011 11011011001 01011001 1101110101001 011001111 11011011111 101011011 11111111101 101011001 001001111001 001001011 111011001001 101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; they, with, it, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, he, then, in are repeated.
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More information about poems by Lewis Carroll
- Analysis of Fit The Second ( Hunting Of The Snark )
- Analysis of The White Knight's Song
- Analysis of Another Acrostic ( In The Style Of Father William )
