This is an analysis of the poem Invocation Of Laughter that begins with:
O, laugh, laughers!
O, laugh out, laughers!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 11110 1110111101100 1111000 1100100010010010 11001000100010 100100 10101010 1010 1110 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 374
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; laugh, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines laughers is repeated).
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