This is an analysis of The Triantiwontigongolope by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

There's a very funny insect that you do not often spy,
And it isn't quite a spider, and it isn't quite a fly;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabAaXX ccddbAaXX eeffbAaXX ccggbaaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,9,
  • Metre: 101010111111101 100010101000101 001010101010101 11010101110101 01010111110111 11 1 11010 1000000 01111101110101 01010101010001 11110100011101 11111001110001 101110100010111 11 1 11010 1000000 01001100110101 001110101010101 011101100010101 101111100110101 11001100010111 11 1 11010 1000000 101110101110001 111010101111011 110011111110110 001110101011101 01010101110111 11 1 11010 1000000
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 36

Repeated words/phrases

it, and, like, you, i

Anaphora

tri, it

Anadiplosis

tri