This is an analysis of the poem Report Of An Adjudged Case that begins with:
Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose,
The spectacles set them unhappily wrong;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abab cdcd efef agag ahah iaiaXgege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111011001 01001001001 01001111011 01011001001 101101011001 0011011011010 11101101001 111010010010 001001001001 111011001001 101111001101 10100101101 11001001001 110011110010 11101001001 010110011010 01111001001 101111011001 101011001101 11111111001 101001111001 001000101001 101001001101 101111001010 11001101011 11001001001 11001001101 101011101001 101001001101 01011011011 101001101001 11111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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