This is an analysis of the poem On The Difficulty Of Conjuring Up A Dryad that begins with:
Ravening through the persistent bric-à-brac
Of blunt pencils, rose-sprigged coffee cup,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXccdd cdecffXX dggdhhXg abbXiihh cddciieX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001011 011011101 101111011 1011011010010 0101 1010101 110001 0110110 011001001010001 100011110 111011101010 0111111001 111 1111 11101 10101110 1110100110 100100111 1101001101 11110011101 0011 11101 01010 1111 11011100111 011011001 111000111 0110101110 1110 11110 011101 10110 111011001111 110101110 1101010111110 10100111001 101001 10110 10101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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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