This is an analysis of the poem Nux Postcoenatica that begins with:
I was sitting with my microscope, upon my parlor rug,
With a very heavy quarto and a very lively bug;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gghh eehh iijj ggcc kkhh lldd cchh ffmm hhmm aaee hhgg nnnn ooee nnppXeenn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001101011101 001010101010101 011101010101010 1011001001101110 111110100010001 111010101110101 111010111110111 101010100101111 111011100110111 11010101011101 01110111110001 10111101010011 11110001111101 11010101010011 11010100110001 1100100010001 11110100111101 11011111011111 010010101010111 01011100011101 11101001110101 011010111110101 11011111010101 0111101110101 100010011110101 01110100110101 101010101010101 101010111110101 0010101011110101 101000101111101 110101001100101 001110101010101 001010101110101 111010110010101 10101111110011 101010101110111 1110001001101010 1111001001101010 1111011010101110 110101011111110 011101111101001 01010001110111 01110101010101 111111101111101 11110100010101 11011100010111 011101001111111 01010101110101 10010101010011 11110100010001 100101101100010 110100011101010 11110100010111 11110101110101 11001101010101 11101101110011 1111001000101010 010001010101010 010101011111010 1101010011111010 1101010100101010 010100100111110 111111000101010 010111010100010 110111010111010 11001010111001010 1101010010101110 01100011100101010 011000001010010 1111010011001010 111101011101010 101100010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and, of, you, that, s, i, twenty, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, it, and, the, to are repeated.
The author used the same words it, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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