This is an analysis of the poem There Was A Man With Tongue Of Wood that begins with:
There was a man with tongue of wood
Who essayed to sing, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaaXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110001 101010100 111111 011000101 11101 101 101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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