This is an analysis of the poem The Twins Of Lucky Strike that begins with:
I've sung of Violet de Vere, that slinky, minky dame,
Of Gertie of the Diamond Tooth, and Touch-the-Button Nell,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcXdedXedeX XdfXaXXX dgdgedXX cdcdcdXX eeeefdfX bdbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001110101 01000101110101 11101101110111 10111101110101 11111101110101 11111101011111 11010101010001 0101011111011 11011101010111 11010101110101 111111111001001 1011101011011110 11011101111111 11011111111001 01010101111111 100111101011011 1111101011101110 11010101110111 1011101011100111 11010100110110 1010011001010101 111111000101 1111110101110100 101110011011011 11000101011101 110011100111101 11010101100011 11111011010001 111000001110101 11011101110001 110101000111111 10100111011011 01100101010111 11010101110001 11010011010101 10000101110101 110111011110101 11110111110101 010101011101110 101111101011011 11010101111111 11010101010101 11011101100111 11010101011111 101000100010011 110111010110101 11010001110101 1001010101011 11010101110001 10010001010111 11111101011101 1000010111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 520
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (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; and, of, i, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word maree at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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