This is an analysis of the poem A Caution To Everybody that begins with:
Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001 010010110110111101 01011110101 011011011110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, to, how are repeated.
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