This is an analysis of the poem There Was An Old Man Of The Cape that begins with:
There was an old man of the Cape
Who made himself garments of crepe.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: limerick
- Metre: 11111001 11011001 1110110 1011011 11100101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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