This is an analysis of the poem The Played-Out Humorist that begins with:
Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is,
Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcaaaa dede fgdfggXg fbfbXfXffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,8,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010111000100 11110000110101 0111010011010100 110011100110101 1101010001010100 11000110010001 11101110101100 10 11000101110001 1010001 1110101 11100010010001 1101110001110111 11010101110111 1101010101010111 11001101110010 10111110101010101 01100100010101 1111111011101010 1 11110101011001 1110101 0111100 111010101011001 0101110011110101 11111111010101 0100010101010101 11010100010001 11101010011011100 01010101010001 11100010111010000 00110100010101 1010111 1110101 111010000010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 425
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; that, at, when, and are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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