This is an analysis of the poem The Pangolin that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabccdefXXbXXgdhhcedhdXijkfdhhhkkhghjchccjXbebakhXlkXbkklikdgdjejdehjhjhcXXkXmimjmjXklilgfgXkgnkXabenXhdlkdknX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 110,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101000 10101110100011 101001010 110110101111 10110 01101101010 11010110100 010100110011101 10110111 01011 111101001 100110001 1001111000 10000101101110 11110101 0101010111010111 0100111100011 101101001011 100011101110 1 110100001 0111 0101010000 0111010110 01010010 0101011010110 11 101000111 100011100100101001 1111111010101 10011111111 01101001111 110 11111111111 10010 1101010010 101101100 100100100010 11011010111111 101110101 1101011101111 101 1001000101000 1111101010101 101101001010100 10110110 1101 0111010001 110011011 101010100 11011111111111 110010101 011101111001000 1011100101010 10111001111 11001101010001 1111101101011 111001001 110110001 1000011010 0100101101101010 1111101 0100110101110100 111011111000 1 010101110001 1001010101010 1 01110101 0111 0111010101 010000011 101011001 110100101100100 111111100 0101000101111 110 010111110101 10 10011010101 01010101010011 10110001 0101 01010101000 101001000 1000100011 10101010111010 100011001 1011111010001110 01 1011001101010 1010110101000 1011010011010 11101010 1001 1111101111 110111100 101010101 111100111011100 1100101000 10001111101101 10 0010111001101 11110101111 01010101011 101 10010101 10001 0111111111 1100110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4333
- Average number of words per stanza: 746
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, or, monk, to, like are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase humor connects the lines.
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