This is an analysis of the poem The Palace Of Humbug that begins with:
Lays of Mystery,
Imagination, and Humor ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX X bbb bbb Xcc ddd eee bbb fff ccc ggg hhh iii jjj kkX XbX XXX jXj eee hahXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10100 01010110 101 11110101 11111111 11010101 11000101 110110001 01010101 11010101 11000111 01000101 11011101 11010111 11110001 11010111 11010101 01110011 11011101 11010101 11011101 110111001 110110111 11110101 11010101 10110101 01010001 01010101 110101001 11110111 010010111 10110111 01000101 11110101 01000101 11011101 01010101 10010001 11110111 10100111101 01010100 0110011000 10010110100 11010111 1111111100 110101101 11011101 1001000100 01010111 1111010100 01011101 01110111 01011101 11010011 10111101 0101011110 110111111 11110101 110100001 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words strange, whose, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Palace Of Humbug;
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