This is an analysis of the poem The Perils Of Invisibility that begins with:
Old PETER led a wretched life -
Old PETER had a furious wife;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb Xcdd eefX XcgX bbfX gghh iibX ggbb jjkX ddll ccgX bbgg ccfm XfdX iigg bbfm nncc ggkX kkbb iicc ccoo llhXXccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 110101001 11011101 110100101 01010100 11010110 111010101 11110111 101110101 01010111 010110010 011000000 1010101000 11010001 101011001 010011010 1010010111 01000101 100110101 11010101 11010101 11000101 11000101 110111101 11010111 11011101 101110101 011101010 01110111 01110001 11010101 11010101 11010101 01010011 11011101 0101000100 11010101 01110111 01010111 01011111 11010101 01010001 11011101 0101001100 11011111 11011111 01111111 01010101 11010101 11110101 11000101 01010100 1010111010 01010111 101011101 111001010 11011101 11011101 01110001 11010101 01110111 01010101 01111101 01010100 101010111 11100011 01011101 11010101 101110101 01110111 11110101 0101010100 11010101 01010110 11010101 01010111 11010001 100110101 01011101 11110101 11011101 11110101 10110101 01010101 11110101 11110101 11010111 11010101 11011111 01011111 011111011 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; old, peter, his, and, to, train are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words old, the, his are repeated.
The author used the same words old, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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