This is an analysis of the poem The Razzle Dazzle that begins with:
The youth who spent his money on the rink and on the
skate, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ab aa bC b X dX de bc b f eb eb bc b a d a X b bC b df f cb Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010101110 1 1101011111010 1 0111010101010 1 111010101010011 1 011101001000 1 01110101011011 01 01110101010100 1 111010101010011 1 0111110100111 01 0111110101000 1 01110101001000 1 111010101010011 1 1101010010101 11101010101010 1 11 0111010101010 1 111010101010011 1 1101110101110 1 010111111110101 11110100111010 1 111101010111001 11
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 47
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; on is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word his at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Razzle Dazzle;
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