This is an analysis of the poem The Humane Mikado that begins with:
A more humane Mikado never
Did in Japan exist;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbabaaX DDDDBBXX efeefXXeeXXXXageeaae DDDDBBXX XecceeXhhgeciiceejje DDDDBBXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,20,8,20,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101010 000101 011110 010010 010100 0011001010 010101 11010 01010 010100 110101 110101 010100101 0100101 1111001 0100101 010100100 0100100 1101010010 1101111 110110 010010 110101 010110110100 101001 110110 010010 0100110 01011010010 110111 110010 011010 0100111 01001011100 101101 11010 011010 0101001 110101 110101 010100101 0100101 1111001 0100101 010100100 0100100 010101110 010101 011010 110010 1101101 01011001010 010111100 111010 011100 1100111 0101110110 010101 1101 00101 1011111 1111010010 010101 10101 00101 10100101 110101 110101 010100101 0100101 1111001 0100101 010100100 0100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines crime, merriment are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word merriment at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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