This is an analysis of the poem Very Like A Whale that begins with:
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by the authors of simile and...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXcbbcdebffXbXbfeXXegbghijihkedkcjjikdXkfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 45,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100010100101 100101001010100101 100 100110011101011 11101110100100110 11011011001101 11011111 11010011101101 0011110101010100 01101001011010001010 0100 11011101001100110101 1100100 11011101001010100 11011000100011100 1001011 111010111111110 1101 0101111010010100 111101 11101010101001010 111011011100 11110011011001001 10001011111101 011111101101011011 11111101111 10110010010111001001 10101 1100100101110100100 10010010101 11101001111011111 100101010011111010 00011010110110010 01011111011010 1110111010 101011101101110 0100100 11101010010110100 111111110100110 100101 100001111110011100 1111100111001000 1001001111111 110110101010110 111111100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2325
- Average number of words per stanza: 446
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; be, that, it, to, and, he, of, blanket are repeated.
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