This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Ice-Worm Cocktail that begins with:
To Dawson Town came Percy Brown from London on the Thames.
A pane of glass was in his eye, and stockings on his stems....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXbbaa eecXeXccfX ggccaahhffiijX ccdXhhcX dXkkaXddeeddhhllddbX hXgXhhaXbbjjffhhXhhXcX bbddffcXffiikkhXcckkfXffbbkkffkXcX aaiXhhcXbbeXhhiiXccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,14,8,20,22,34,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011101010101 01011001110101 01010001010111 01010101010101 01011100110101 01000101010001 1001001110101 11010101010100 11010111010001 10110001010101 11010101110101 11111111010111 11011101010001 11000101010101 110110101010101 010101011011010 11011111010001 110101011101010 110110011111101 11110101010001 11110111111101 1101010001010100 01010101010101 01111100101111 01010100111101 10001101010101 11010001011111 01010101010101 01010101010101 11010101011101 1101011011000111 01010101011101 11000111010101 01000001010001 11010001100001 11011000101010100 1010010101010101 100010010110101 11010111111101 110111001010110 01110111011111 11010100010101 10010100010101 010001111111110 10100101011010111 11111100010110 11110101110101 11111111011011 11011100010111 0111110111111100 110110011111101 11110100010011 01010101010101 100101001010001 11010101111111 11010101010101 11011111110101 11110101110101 11110011010101 11001101110101 11011101110011 11011101010001 11010101110101 110111110101010 10101011011011101 110101010111010 101010011011010111 111101100100110 11011101111101 1000011111111111 11110101110101 011101010101010 11000111111101 01011101110101 100100101110001 01011101010101 110001001110101 11011101110001 110111010101011 01111100011001 1101010110001010 10101011011011001 01011101111101 110101111101010 1111011011011101 1111111111110100 11011101010001 01010101010001 01011101110011 11010111010001 1001010101001 01110111010111 11010101010101 110101001110011100 10010001010101 1011111011101011 1011101101110111 101110101010101 11011101110101 11011101010101 10101011011001001 010101110111110 11110111110101 10100001110111 01010101011111 11010110010101 00010110010111 10110010101000010 11100101111101 11010101010101 010100111010101 01010111010101 01010101110001 11100011110101 01010100011101 01010101010101 110111011011111 101101011111010 100101011000101 011101011111110 01010101110101 11011101110101 11010111010111 11110111110100 11110101111101 01011101011101 11111111110101 1001110110011010 01111101110101 11111001010011 01101001011101 0101111111001010 01011101110101 1011101010111001 11011101110101 01011101110101 11110101010101 11110101010101 111111110110001 101010100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 974
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 140
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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; his, to, and, its, in, he, their, with, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, their, his, the are repeated.
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