This is an analysis of the poem The Height Of The Ridiculous that begins with:
I WROTE some lines once on a time
In wondrous merry mood, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dccc aaca bceX efXf bdXd deXeXcfef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 010101 111100111 100100 10111101 111111 010001001 010111 11110111 110101 01010111 100101 1000100101 1011001 11010101 1000010010 11010111 111101 10111101 110101 11010111 110101 11010101 110101 01110001 010101 01111101 110001 11110101 111101 11110101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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