This is an analysis of the poem The Land Of Candy that begins with:
There was once a little boy —
So my father told me — who... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccbccdd XeffecbbghgheeX XaaaaffiiXgfbbf XbjbjfffjfjhbXbekkkegeeg aiieXebXbfffkaakXlliellXlfbfbiifif akkmmkjjXjjjekekieieeeieeieeffbfb Xfggfiibbaacacca XmamafafkgkgeeefafaeeccgcggnnbXececejejfcfXXcllckckeeaaecce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,15,15,24,34,33,16,59,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1110111 1011101 1111111 1110111 1011111 1111110 1011111 1110111 1111101 1110111 1 1010111 1111111 1110111 1001011 1110101 1111101 1111011 0011101 10011101 0010111 1110101 1010101 0111101 1110100 1 1111101 1011101 1001101 10101101 1011011 1011111 10100001 110101 1011111 0010111 0010111 1110101 0011111 1110101 1 1001100 0110101 1110111 1010111 110110 1011111 1111011 1110101 1110001 1010101 1010111 1111111 1110101 1011101 1111111 1110111 1110111 1111101 1111111 1011101 0110111 10011101 1110101 1 11010101 1110011 1110111 1110111 1011101 1111111 11111100 1111111 1111111 01111001 1010101 1110101 1111101 1111111 1101101 1110111 1111101 1110111 1110111 0010111 1110111 1011111 0110111 1110101 10011101 1010011 1010100 0110101 1111101 1111010 10110111 1010101 1010100 1 01011101 11010101 11111101 11010101 11011111 01010101 11010111 01010100 11110101 110010110 11010100 10010001 01011101 01110111 11011101 01001001 11010101 01010001 01011101 11001101 11111111 01111101 11011101 110001001 111100101 01010101 11110101 11111111 11011111 11111101 01011101 11110111 1 11111101 11011101 11011001 01100111 0101001 11110111 11110111 01010111 01011101 11010101 01110011 01010101 11010011 11011101 010101101 1 10110111 11011111 11010110 010010011 01110111 11011101 11011101 11100101 11011100 01010011 11010001 01010111 01110101 01011101 11111101 11000111 11010111 11010111 11011111 11010111 11011001 11111101 11111101 111101001 11011111 11111111 11011111 11111001 10111011 11110111 11111111 11010100 01011111 11110101 11111101 11111101 11011111 11111101 11111111 01110101 11110111 11111101 111101111 10110111 10011101 01010111 01010101 11010111 11111101 11010111 01111111 110001001 01111111 01111111 11111101 11110111 11011111 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 840
- Average number of words per stanza: 165
- Amount of lines: 213
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, n't, in, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, a, from are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines four is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases cried, smiled connect the lines.
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- summary of The Land Of Candy;
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