This is an analysis of An Error In Creation by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

There was once a man who made a weird machine,
Employing dynamite and kerosene.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaa bbXXb XcddX eeffe XcffX aagga
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 11101110101 0101011101 0100010 10100010 10101111011 0101001101 0111010001 0101010 11001110 00111110111 110101001 0101010111 10101010 10101010 1010101010 10101010101 00101011101 1011010 10101010 11111010101 100100110 1101010011 10101010 11101010 001000101 1101010001 0101110101 11100010 11101010 101010010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 30

Anaphora

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