This is an analysis of the poem Humanities Lecture that begins with:
Aristotle was a little man with
eyes like a lizard, and he found a streak ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaba accc cXbdX dcXXe eXeec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101010 1101011101 10101011101 1101010110 1010001 11111111 1011101 1101011 1101 0100111 1110111010101 00010001011 0100010001001 1100101010101 0101010101 101001101010 01001011001 011110100 101011111 10100111111 1101110110010 1010 110111101 011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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