This is an analysis of the poem Strange Jokes that begins with:
Well: Death is a huge omnivorous Toad
Grim squatting on a twilight road.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbc ddXeXe eebdXd ffaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101001 11010111 11011101 1101 11011101 1101 10010111 11010101 01010101100 1011 11110101 1001 11011101 110011101 10111101 1111 01110111 0101 11010111 11100101 01011101 111010 11010101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dew is repeated).
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