This is an analysis of the poem The Sense Of The Sleight-Of-Hand Man that begins with:
One's grand flights, one's Sunday baths,
One's tootings at the weddings of the soul...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcXcX XbabXbbXddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111 1101010001 0111011101 01010101101 0010001011 1011111101 110001101 1001010101 1111011100 1101000101 0101010101 01010010101 010010110100 1111101001 10101010111 0100100101 1101010101 10010010101 10100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 410
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one's, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one's, and, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines life is repeated).
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