This is an analysis of the poem Preface To Hunting Of The Snark that begins with:
PREFACE
If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcd X efegebh ijklgemhdbliXcni cca lclidfXn dde XmajicjX i X kccX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,1,7,16,3,8,3,8,1,1,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 010101010001010 100101010100011 0101001011101101 10101100101000 0100101010010111101 010001101010111101000 101101111100110 1000100100100001001 10010100010010100100 100101010101010010 1010 0101111100100010100 1010101001110100 1000101111010111 01001111110101100 1001011011001010 0100100101110010010 11110010110000101 100110010010110100010 001010110101010011 101101001110111 10111001111100110 110010101001001 1011011101101100 101001110101101 1001101010010001100 110 010110010101011100 010001010010100010 10001101 10100010101000100 10011101010001000101 110011100110100 10100110101100 011101010010110 100000110101011 110101001001010 10100100 0101010010010010110 11010101001101001 11010010101101011 11010111011011 111101111100101 10111101111011 01101100110101 101001111001101 101011001010111 10010100101101 10 0101110100111 1011100111 1010111010110101 10111010010111111 100110101010100101 10111111110 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, as, to, it, of, in, you, say, if, that are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word '' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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